Even though a lot of people who have the Kindle e-book reader waited a long, long time to get their hands on some deal that allows them to borrow books rather than purchasing them, the newest push by the maker of Kindle, Amazon has rather raised concerns instead of bringing joy, in some.
The Kindle ecosystem is friendly. There are many things to like about the Kindle but at the same time, many things that are worth disliking too. These things include books protected by DRM which lead for the consumers to think again about sticking with Amazon or replace it with a competitor, persistent decline in prices of the e-readers of the company, and let’s not forget the newest lending program launched by the company may also bring dissatisfaction to many, if not all.
The new lending system allows owners of Kindle and Kindle Fire to get access to 5000 books; this 5000 is way too less than the number of books available at the Kindle Store which equal to over one million. The new lending system called Kindle Owners Lending Library facilitates reading but in a limited manner, to those who are Prime subscribers of Amazon. The thing good about the lending system is that there is no date of returning the book however, the part here to dislike is that users will be allowed to get access to one book at a time, and one book in a month.
There are other companies such as Netflix Instant, and the movie streaming service of Amazon itself, which permit the users to get unlimited access to content if they pay a particular price for it, which rather is a much better choice as they don’t become bound to just one movie/type of content in one go. The limitedness of the service is the biggest downside of the service; the limitedness to borrow books and the limitedness in terms of collection.
