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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Penguin has pulled their new books, and all books from Kindle access.
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I just checked a bunch of books, and at the Free Library of Philadelphia, as of today, if a Penguin book is available in EPUB, it is also available for Kindle. Penguin did pull the Kindle access for a few days, and then, at least for now, relented.
As for not licensing new books to Overdrive for a few months or years, this seems to me a reasonable way to balance a public good with the need for publishers to sell books. Less patient people can pay and I can have them for free
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Random House is the only one of the Agency pricing publishers that's still doing normal business with libraries, but they're reconsidering.
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Is Amazon an agency publisher in your view? It's true that they charge less, and have promotions, but since Amazon Publishing sets its own on-line prices, I'd say yes. And Amazon Publishing titles are not licensed to Overdrive.
If non-cooperation with Overdrive is an offense, the largest publisher in terms of market capitalization, Amazon LLC, is the biggest offender.