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title: "Amazon is not Renting Kindle Books"
description: "It is always odd to me how little people pay attention to blog posts past the initial headline and first paragraph or two.  I have seen about a dozen variation of \"Amazon is Testing Kindle Book Rental..."
url: https://bookwi.se/amazon-is-not-renting-kindle-books/
date: 2013-01-22
modified: 2013-01-22
author: "Adam Shields"
categories: ["Uncategorized"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# Amazon is not Renting Kindle Books

![Hoax2](https://bookwi.se/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Hoax2.jpg)It is always odd to me how little people pay attention to blog posts past the initial headline and first paragraph or two.  I have seen about a dozen variation of “Amazon is Testing Kindle Book Rentals” over the past couple days.  They all link back to [this post](http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2013-01/amazon-tests-kindle-ebook-rentals/), which does show a kindle book rental.

The problem is that the book has an odd title *Theories of International Politics and Zombies*.  It is published by Princeton University Press and is actually a political science book.  [Amazon has been renting textbooks](http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_364566462_3?ie=UTF8&node=5657188011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=hero-quick-promo&pf_rd_r=1WCHMFCEFZ7B7AA53SW5&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1465496662&pf_rd_i=0495604194), including [kindle format text book rentals](http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_359510242_3?ie=UTF8&docId=1000702481&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=right-2&pf_rd_r=07J69YPWQ2VN2ECSV2CY&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1392500442&pf_rd_i=2223210011) for a couple years.

In the comments of this original post, one of the commenters notes that this is actually a text book, that most of the questions that were asked were either on the page (yes you can upgrade the rental to a purchase later) or were on the Textbook Rental FAQ page.

Anyone can make a mistake.  I make them all the time and I try to correct them.  But all of the blog posts that I actually have read about this, were written (or at least posted) after the comments pointing out that this is not a new Amazon Kindle Book Rental program and it is not in a testing phase.  But the re-posters did not seem to get down that far.