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 perm...

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