Mike,
Thank you so much for passing our complaints/suggestions on to Overdrive, and als for the work-around to your app (though, ideally, your app would warn me that kindle books are incompatible but still let me check them out).
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Originally Posted by Mike@OverDrive
14. Question: Why are many recent eBooks not available in Kindle format? xendula
Can you provide a specific example? Could be a variety of reasons.
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I do not know which publishers are the worst offenders, but below is an excerpt from Brooklyn Library to my inquiry, emphasis mine:
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Thank you for writing to the Brooklyn Public Library and for sharing your concerns about the decreasing number of new ebook titles being released in the Kindle format on our main ebook site. *This is a concern of ours as well. *We in no way would purposely phase out Kindle content from our ebook collection. *Currently, Overdrive Inc. is the only ebook vendor who provides any popular reading Kindle content to public libraries. *The decision to offer Kindle format to public libraries is one made by each publisher, and we have noticed that some publishers do so on a title by title basis. *As an experiment, I looked in our ebook catalog at all the titles released from one publisher so far this month. *Of the 141 titles, only 8 were offered in Kindle format--quite unsettling.
I can assure you that we will continue to raise this as an issue with Overdrive, publishers, and authors.
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Could you please raise this concern with publishers and let them know that they are on notice and will end up losing customers quickly for their inflexibility. I already stopped purchasing Penguin books a year ago, and publishers discriminating against Kindle using patrons will be next on my list. Is there anything else Overdrive can do to help in this respect? And, do you have any metrics of ePub vs. kindle eborrowing when both formats are available? I would be very interested in them.
Thanks again, Mike!