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Originally Posted by John F
I've seen ebooks at the library I frequent in epub (and PDF) only. I'm guessing that Penguin could only make the epub available.
And reading a quote from Penguin, I don't see any mention of Amazon and privacy concerns:
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Maybe not discussed there but
here it is mentioned again:
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As we have reported multiple times, but does not seem to have seeped out into general reports or public consciousness, multiple publishers have told us that Overdrive's implementation of their Kindle library lending--in which library patrons are sent to a commercial, third-party retailer, in this case Amazon--is in their view a direct violation of Overdrive's contracts. Remember that in November, Penguin said clearly it "informed suppliers to libraries that it expected them to abide by existing agreements to offer older digital titles to libraries only if those files were held behind the firewalls of the suppliers." Not the firewalls of retailers. Also in November, Penguin said it had "subsequently been informed by Amazon that it had not been consulted by Overdrive about the terms of Penguin’s agreement with Overdrive," which, you can reasonably infer, does not allow Kindle lending the way Overdrive was executing it.
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