Kindle to support book lending
In addition to expanding on Amazon's "Buy Once, Read Everywhere" philosophy, The Amazon Kindle team added:
Second, later this year, we will be introducing lending for Kindle, a new feature that lets you loan your Kindle books to other Kindle device or Kindle app users. Each book can be lent once for a loan period of 14-days and the lender cannot read the book during the loan period. Additionally, not all e-books will be lendable - this is solely up to the publisher or rights holder, who determines which titles are enabled for lending.
via amazon.com
Those terms are very similar to the Nook's.
Lending once for 14 days is certainly better than the current policy, but it still falls short of "paper" books (though I still prefer eBooks over paper most of the time).
Given the smaller number of Kindle books that do not support Text-to-Speech, I'm guessing those numbers will mirror the lend rights.
