Originally Posted by Gwen Morse
Overdrive does not have the right to take *my* tax dollars and then limit the way I access library books.
I'm a tax-payer. I pay for the library. Overdrive does not pay for the library in my locality (Overdrive does not have offices in my neighborhood). *Yes*, they're providing a service, but that service does *not* give them the right to come between me and my library books. Overdrive does that for the benefit of the publishers, not for the benefit of the library patrons.
If ebooks are going to be offered in libraries, then the publishers (and Overdrive) do not have the right to dictate what sort of ereader I have to buy in order to make use of the library. It's *my* facility (and the facility of the other people in my neighborhood), not theirs.
Corporations do NOT have the right (at least in the US) to deny explicit rights by wrapping their products up in protective technologies meant to control their use _after_ purchase. Except, of course, that they've been buying that ability from Congress. It doesn't make it any less illegal and immoral.
That all said, I understand why Amazon doesn't have epub support in kindles. I do "wish" they did (and it would be nice if they would eventually approve an epub "app"), but I understand why they don't. At this point, it's on me to make other arrangements.
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