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Originally Posted by Harmon
You don't own the library book - the library does.
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No, OverDrive, or a corporate partner, owns the book. The library leases it.
OverDrive will lease it in EPub format, or Mobipocket format, or as an audiobook. The few libraries that lease in both EPub and Mobipocket have to pay more for that right than for EPub alone, and this probably results in more revenue going back to the author. (I say probably because it depends on how many copies total the library leases, and whether the books are almost always out, and on the lease rates.)
If someone could invent a rock-solid way to keep Kindle users from viewing EPub books, there would be more books sold and authors would make more money. Does this make it immoral to convert a book you would never buy under any circumstances, since the author is held harmless? I don't know, but legal or otherwise, it would not feel right for me to break the encryption.