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Amazon extending Kindle Owners’ Lending Library to the UK, Germany and France this month

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Amazon's Kindle Owners' Lending Library has grown considerably since launching in the US, and it looks like the company's finally decided it was time to let some other countries in on the service as well. It announced today that Amazon Prime members in the UK, Germany and France would all have access to the service "later this month," although it's not providing a specific date just yet. As in the US, it will let folks borrow up to one book a month for free, with over 200,000 titles available to choose from (including "thousands" in the countries' local languages). Alongside that expansion, Amazon has also announced yet another increase (of $100,000) to its Kindle Direct Publishing Select fund -- which pays independent authors who include their books in the Lending Library -- with an even bigger one planed for November. No word yet on any additional countries next in line.

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Amazon says more items are now shipped with Prime than free shipping, dishes a few other stats

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Amazon says more items are now shipped with Prime than free shipping, dishes a few other stats

Amazon isn't one to provide a lot of specific numbers on the products and services it offers, but it has confirmed today that its $79 a year Prime service recently crossed a fairly significant milestone. The company says that more items are now shipped with Prime's two-day shipping than with its standard Free Super Saver Shipping -- which is, presumably, quite a lot. Of course, Prime has grown to become considerably more than just a premium shipping option since it launched in 2005, and Amazon has also taken the opportunity to divulge a few other details on the service. On Prime Instant Video, it says that it now offers 22,000 titles for streaming, a growth of 70 percent this year -- it also notes, somewhat interestingly, that 96.4 percent of the Prime video catalog is viewed in any given week. As for the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, it now counts 180,000 titles, the most borrowed of which is The Hunger Games.

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Amazon says more items are now shipped with Prime than free shipping, dishes a few other stats originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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PSA: Entire Harry Potter series now available on Amazon’s Kindle Owners’ Lending Library

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PSA: Entire Harry Potter series now available on Amazon's Kindle Owners' Lending Library

Fancy dipping back into the world of Quidditch and Dumbledore? Or maybe you shunned the whole Pottermania thing until now. Either way, if you own a Kindle, you can finally get up to speed without paying a spellbinding price -- thanks to Amazon's Kindle Owners Lending Library. All seven eBook titles are up for grabs in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. To get them, there's no need to wave your magic wand, instead just make sure your Prime membership is all paid up, and you're good to go. Magic.

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PSA: Entire Harry Potter series now available on Amazon's Kindle Owners' Lending Library originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 19 Jun 2012 04:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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