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Originally Posted by elemenoP
re: library ebooks and piracy: I find it maddening that Penguin cites piracy as their reason to pull library ebooks. Simply making your book available as an ebook (whether that be at a bookstore or library) makes it expedient for pirates to pirate it. Perhaps Penguin found their sales went down because of the legitimate library checkouts, not piracy? (which is scary for publishers, of course.) But it's bad press to say that you're "against libraries" so they had to put another spin on it.
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Penguin pulled Kindle eBooks from the library. They then put them back and said no more new eBooks. So what is it that Penguin has against Kindles? There was a time when Penguin eBooks could not be bought via Amazon from Canada.
To be honest, I'd rather Penguin pulled Kindled eBooks and kept ePub if that meant we could still get new eBooks.