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Old 10-28-2010, 07:05 PM   #144
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Originally Posted by Catlady View Post
The question really is why Amazon--the biggest fish in the pond--apparently feels most threatened by the library system.
If Amazon was the one who sold the books to the library in the first place, and if the library's Kindle support gave more people a reason to run out and buy a Kindle, perhaps that would give Amazon a reason to embrace limited library support. As I mentioned in an earlier post, if Amazon can enable "lending" on the Kindle, then theoretically they should be able to set up library loans as well (via their own DRM, not ADE/ePub). I hope they do, but I have no sense of whether that's in the cards.
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