A colleague asked Chrissie (Turkington) a little while ago about the use of the Amazon Kindle eReader within academic libraries. They'd heard that there may be legal issues surrounding it's use and the use of digital content purchased from Amazon.co.uk and the UK Kindle Store.

So, Chrissie got in touch with Amazon Customer Services:

"If a library had purchased Kindle readers using their own account for loaning (on a non-commercial basis) to borrowers, are they licensed to also permit access to the eBooks purchased from the Kindle store that have been registered and downloaded onto these devices through the library's Amazon account?"
What was the answer? Find out in Chrissie's Muses at http://chrissiet.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/are-you-using-the-amazon-kindle-in-your-library/.

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