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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
AFAIK, they only sell books through Amazon.
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I meant books like
this and
this. The first is an AmazonCrossing eBook marketed in print through an arrangement with Mariner Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The second is published by Amazon's Thomas & Mercer imprint both as an eBook and in print. Both are not available from Overdrive as eBooks (although they are Overdrive audiobooks). By contrast, at least some non-Amazon Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
eBooks are available for US public library borrowing.
Both of the Amazon eBooks I mention are available for free borrowing -- not from public libraries, but from Amazon.com at the cost of a $79/year prime membership.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
But it's [Amazon] hardly keeping tens of thousands of titles away from libraries.
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Press reports are that Amazon Publishing title volume will double next year. Baring unforeseen financial setbacks, and without a policy change, Amazon will get, if not to tens of thousands, to where they are a big Overdrive refusal presence. So I think that, whenever people list publishers not cooperating with public library eBook borrowing, Amazon should be included.