Thread: Kindle Library Books for dummies, please!
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Old 02-08-2011, 07:02 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by chyron8472 View Post
One would think that, since Amazon has the largest market share on ebooks and ebook readers, that those who are in the business of lending out books to the public (ie. libraries) would do well to make ebooks available in the format which the most popular device uses.
It's not the format. It's the DRM. As far as I know, amazon DRM is proprietary.

My library is poor enough. I don't think it's reasonable to expect it to buy another collection of books just to satisfy one single ereader, even a popular one. Like it or not, the adobe digital ePub is the standard we have for library. I don't want tax money to subsidize amazon.
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