{"id":7649,"date":"2011-01-02T08:33:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T13:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7649"},"modified":"2011-01-02T08:33:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T13:33:32","slug":"kindle-offers-ebook-sharingkind-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7649","title":{"rendered":"Kindle Offers eBook Sharing&#8230;Kind of&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Amazon <\/strong>had a <strong>Kindle <\/strong>book &#8216;gifting&#8217; feature installed in time for Christmas, and now they&#8217;ve made good on a promise to allow Kindle owners to &#8216;share&#8217; eBooks from their personal Kindle book collections. <strong>ReviewsofElectronics<\/strong> has a post on the topic <a title=\"Kindle book sharing.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewsofelectronics.com\/kindle-ebook-reader-learns-to-share-with-digital-ebook-sharing-featured\/224675\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are some strings attached like not all Kindle books are eligible, and the sharing only lasts for 14 days, and the shared Kindle book&#8217;s owner cannot read the book while it is on loan; but it&#8217;s a slow, hesitant step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and each title can be &#8216;shared&#8217; only once&#8230;so, you can see that while it is an easing of restrictions on Kindle owners, it should not be mistaken for liberty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon had a Kindle book &#8216;gifting&#8217; feature installed in time for Christmas, and now they&#8217;ve made good on a promise to allow Kindle owners to &#8216;share&#8217; eBooks from their personal Kindle book collections. ReviewsofElectronics has a post on the topic here. There are some strings attached like not all Kindle books are eligible, and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7649\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7649"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7657,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649\/revisions\/7657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}