E-book lending

[2] Overdrive is the only eLending service that works with the Amazon Kindle, but that functionality is limited to U.S. library readers only.

However, acquiring and lending ebooks involves the making of copies and transmissions, which means copyright laws need to be complied with.

[4] Since 2011, HarperCollins has allowed libraries to lend out its ebooks just 26 times before the licence expires and the book is deleted from its collection.

[7] Amazon Publishing is the world's fifth-largest supplier of ebooks, but as of late 2019, also refuses to license them to public libraries (in any country).

[11] The 2012 meeting of the Association of American University Presses included a panel on DDA of books produced by university presses based on a preliminary report by Joseph Esposito, a digital publishing consultant who has studied the implications of PDA with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

[13] In December 2010, Amazon introduced the ability for Kindle users to lend ebooks to friends for a 14-day period.