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Amazon will be starting up the Kindle Library Lending service soon that may completely change how we check out books from the library. Through this service, 11,000 libraries will allow devices with the Kindle app to digitally checkout books at a moment’s notice. Notes can also be taken within the books and saved using Whispersync. 3M Library Systems will launch a similar service this year called the 3M Cloud Library.
The 3M Cloud Library will allow PCs, Macs, iPads, Android tablets, Nooks and 3M eReaders to check out digital books from libraries as well. So far, 3M has enlisted the help of book publishers Random House and IPG who will make its books a part of the 3M Cloud Library. Books can be obtained by using an app, or by accessing the Discovery Terminal download stations in participating libraries.
You may have noticed how the 3M Cloud Library doesn’t work with Kindles. This may just be due to the fact that an application needs to be downloaded to use the service. On the other hand, Amazon’s Kindle Library Lending application is clearly competition. If 3M can offer something that Amazon can’t, it stands to gain a larger following.
A release date for the 3M Cloud Library has not been set. 3M will demonstrate its new e-readers, the Discovery Terminal and the Cloud Library iPad app on the weekend of June 24 at the American Library Association Annual Conference.
Via [BusinessWire]
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