{"id":2260,"date":"2011-09-22T15:42:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T20:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:01","slug":"amazons-kindle-to-make-library-e-books-available-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/22\/amazons-kindle-to-make-library-e-books-available-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Kindle to Make Library E-Books Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2262\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/22\/amazon%e2%80%99s-kindle-to-make-library-e-books-available-2\/kindle\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2262\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2262\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/kindle-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Kindle\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/kindle-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/kindle-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/kindle.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Found via mccune934&#039;s Flickr page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Libraries are a critical part of our communities,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jay Marine, director of Kindle at Amazon, said in a statement. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re excited to be making Kindle books available at more than 11,000 local libraries around the country.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The introduction of the Kindle, the biggest-selling e-reader, opens up library e-books to a wider audience, heightening the fears of publishers that many customers will turn to libraries for reading material. If that happens, e-book buyers could become e-book borrowers, leading to a potentially damaging loss of revenue for an industry grappling with a profound shift in consumer reading habits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/22\/books\/amazons-kindle-to-make-library-e-books-available.html?nl=technology&amp;emc=ctb1\">NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Libraries are a critical part of our communities,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jay Marine, director of Kindle at Amazon, said in a statement. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re excited to be making Kindle books available at more than 11,000 local libraries around the country.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The introduction of the Kindle, the biggest-selling e-reader, opens up library e-books to a wider audience, heightening &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/22\/amazons-kindle-to-make-library-e-books-available-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Kindle to Make Library E-Books Available<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[95,335,150,149,495],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-ebooks","tag-kindle","tag-libraries","tag-library","tag-nook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}