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Amazon announced on the Kindle Community forumstoday that ebook lending will be coming to the Kindle soon.  As with the Nook ereader, loans will be limited to 14 days and the person lending out the ebook will not be able to read the ebook during its loan.  An ebook can only be loaned out once, and can be loaned to another Kindle ereader or Kindle app.  Whether or not a given ebook can be loaned will, of course, be at the whim of the publisher.

Additionally, many newspapers and periodicals that are available on the Kindle will also be available on the Kindle apps — first for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, and later for the other apps.

This is good news, although the lending feature is somewhat limited by publishers. 

I’m never one to be satisfied, so there are a couple more things on my Christmas wishlist — ebook gifting and the ability to borrow library ebooks on the Kindle, if Amazon could swing it.  Being able to gift ebooks is probably on the cards at some point; library ebooks are a different matter altogether.

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