I saw this story today about how Amazon has started a “Lending Library” for Kindle Users. As the article explains, this service is only open to kindle users with a Prime Membership, complicating notions of socio-economic classes associated with the use of lending libraries, and maybe this is something studies of digital (as compared with physical) libraries could look into. In the meantime, though, I think this development could be of interest to anyone working in library studies, since it expands the digital library-as-archive into the library-as-lending/borrowing-space.
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