What a big disappointment. I searched many of my favorite authors but none of them allowed Kindle ebook lending. I continued searching ebook authors until I had checked 70 Best Selling Fiction Authors, many on the current or recent NY Times Best Sellers List.
I only found 10 Authors with lending enabled.
Only 3 of the 11 Kindle Million Club Authors allow lending.
I checked 3 ebooks for each author, a 2011 or most recent release, a 2 year-old ebook, and a 3 or more year-old ebook. Only a few authors did not have three novels to check. In my search I did not find an author who had some ebooks lending enabled and others not enabled.
Last spring Amazon made this big deal announcement that
Kindle owners could lend their books.
How deceiving when so few can be loaned. According to Amazon “publisher determines which titles are eligible for lending.” Maybe they should have drummed up more participating publishers before they made an announcement.
Here’s my challenge:
Check your favorite Authors at the Kindle store. Tell us in comments if any of the publishers would let you lend their ebooks on a Kindle.
Here’s how you find the information: I used Vegas Moon, from Kindle Million Club author John Locke as example.
1. Search your author or book in the Kindle store
2. Click to the book’s information page.
3. Scroll down to the Product Details as pictured below.
If you find a better way than this hunt and peck method to find lending enabled books please share. My searches for a list in Kindle Store yielded nothing.
List of 70 Authors Searched: Lending Enabled in Red
(Again formatting in tables keeps clumping up and will not stay fixed-darn Gremlins)
| Kindle Million:
Roberts
Evanovich
Locke
Harris
Stockette
Larson
Child
Connelley
Martin
Patterson
Collins
Urban Fantasy:
Karen M Moning
Ilona Andrews
Kim Harrison
Adrian Phoenix
Kelly Gay
Katherine Kerr
Richelle Mead
Jim Butcher
KelleyArmstrong
L.A. Banks
Patricia Briggs
Sherrilyn Kenyon
|
Karen Chance
Laurell K Hamilton
Rachel Caine
Tanya Huff
J R Ward
Vicki Pettersson
Paranormal
Romance:
Keri Arthur
Christina Dodd
Nina Bangs
Deborah Cooke
NY Best Sellers
J.R. Rain
KresleyCole
Debbie Macomber
David Baldacci
John Grisham
Clive Cussler
Fern Michaels
Erin Morgenstern
Jonathan Kellerman
Tatiana de Rosnay
Emma Donoghue
Laura Hillenbrand |
Jeaniene Frost
Cherry Adair
Nicholas Sparks
Lisa See
Barbara Freethy
Paula McLain
Michael Prescott
Stephen King
Neal Stephenson
J. A. Jance
CJ Lyons
Chris Culver
David Weber
David Nicholls
Carla Neggers
Faye Kellerman
Richard Castle
Sara Gruen
Robyn Carr
Daniel Yergin
Rod Suskind
Michael Lewis
Stuart Woods
Michael Brandman |
I’m finding I prefer to read books. Audiobook narrators read too slow for me so my attention drifts. I really don’t like women narrators imitating male voices—sounds corny at best. Another disadvantage of listening to books involves my Looked It Up posts. Audiobooks are not conducive to highlighting or jotting down words to look up. For me, hitting stop creates a harsher break, and in spoken sentences pauses feel more disruptive to the story. Yesterday, I finished Some Girls Bite, Book 1 of Chloe Neill’s Chicagoland Vampire Series- narrated by Cynthia Halloway. I liked the story and the narrator was good—her male voices were better than most. But I didn’t write down a single word 😦 Chloe Neill likes to use a hundred dollar word where a five buck word would work, so there were plenty words I would have liked to look up and learn more about. Hence, no Looked It UP post this week. Sorry, but I did create a new Kindle Guy image for you . (Please pretend my earbud doesn’t look like a shower head.)
KLeRosier 