Students get Amazon the ability to digital books for some time to rent. This allows them to be up to 80 percent on the purchase price save. A student then has one month access to the electronic version of a book.
Who wants to rent can do so at an additional cost; an e-book can be up to 360 days to be rented. According to Amazon, there are tens of thousands of digital books available, which will be used in training. However, that is but a small part of the total number of digital books that it onlinewarenhuis offers.
As with the purchase of an e-book is borrow possible to take notes, which by Amazon are stored in the cloud. Therefore, notes are synchronized as a book on different devices is read and after the rental period is still available. Amazon has this technology Whispersync called.
Students who have books want to rent, can this download on Amazons own e-reader Kindle. There are also applications that Amazons digital boekendienst available for Android, iOS, BlackBerry and Windows Phone. Also for the pc and Mac apps are available.
Amazon announced earlier that the plan was for a boekhuurdienst to start. It was then, however, the digital renting of books in American libraries. The onlinewarenhuis works together with the company Overdrive, which is responsible for the digitisation of books in Us libraries. Google is also digitizing books for its Books service.