Thread: Amazon to launch Library Lending
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Old 04-21-2011, 08:22 AM   #152
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I'm still confused about how this is actually going to work. It was said that they would use Amazon's DRM servers, but it seems like the actual file (the text of the book)--not just the DRM--would be served by Amazon, no? So a library patron checks out a book (that currently says epub) but chooses Kindle. The (epub) license is marked as checked-out, meanwhile Amazon says, yep I've got that same book, I'm putting it on your Kindle now. Then the Kindle file expires at the same time that the epub license gets checked back in.

is that right?
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