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Re:Amazon Kindle book lending quietly goes live by rit on Thursday December 30, 2010 @12:50PM (#2052929)
It looks like it depends on the book. The publishers get to set that restriction. If I recall, the same obnoxious restriction was enabled on Nook lending as well.

Hopefully this will lighten as time goes by and the publishers stop being so short sighted. I think they're worried about the loopholes involved such as the turning off wireless with another poster already confirmed works.

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Re:Amazon Kindle book lending quietly goes live by allwein on Thursday December 30, 2010 @01:19PM (#2053054)
Can you point out somewhere that it says the number of lends is set by the publisher? I only saw that the publisher's were in charge of whether it was lendable or not, and not the individual terms of the lend.
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