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Originally Posted by SyJ
My main concern is how the publishers are going to react to this, and to a lesser extent what Amazon is going to do to muck up the system as they try to gain an advantage in some way.
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I think Amazon (in the U.S., where the library lending is right now, anyway) already
has the advantage. I'm sure they want to keep it, but they don't need libraries to do that. And, if this system launches as advertised, it doesn't seem like they're going to have the opportunity to crowd ePub out. As long as it doesn't cost them extra, libraries will carry both formats. The only way Kindle ousts ePub from libraries is if ePub devices drop off the face of the Earth, and libraries decide not to support ePub. I'm not sure why they'd do that, though, because it doesn't seem like it would cost them anything to keep support.