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Originally Posted by rhadin
Seems to me that Penguin's action is a reaction to Amazon's unilateral decision to permit Prime members to borrow books. I say this because Penguin didn't remove the ePub versions from Overdrive. Amazon likes to push the limits. Unfortunately, when it goes too far from the perspective of its suppliers, the reaction tends to hurt the consumer more than Amazon.
One other thing to consider. Amazon is establishing itself as a direct competitor to Penguin. In the past, the only issue was Amazon's price-setting policies. Now that Amazon has aggressively entered the publishing business and the competition to sign authors as a publisher, it is an even greater threat to Penguin and the other publishers. I expect that has also played into Penguin's decision. After all, how much should it want to support what is becoming a direct competitor?
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They can't remove the epub or pdf because the libraries actually purchase that copy. They could be sued but the Kindles wasn't apart of the original licenses. They can suspend all new books that aren't released yet that the libraries hasn't purchased.
Just like Harper Collins couldn't impose the new viewing limit on titles already purchased.
So the current own penguin titles are safe and not going anywhere but that means no new copies.