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Originally Posted by Synamon
You may be pissed at Amazon, but why would Penguin care? Won't Amazon will be sending out emails offering to sell Penguin books to people who are borrowing Penguin books for their Kindles?
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Amazon is a retailer of Penguin books but it is also a competitor with Penguin in that Amazon publishes its own books, and Penguin is rightly afraid of Amazon's market dominance.
Interestingly enough, if you click to buy a book from an Overdrive listing, it sends you to a menu of Overdrives "retail partners" you can select from for the purchase (these are Amazon, B&N, and various indies as applicable). I assume Overdrive takes their affiliate commission from that. I don't know if they get their commission if Amazon solicits your purchase after the loan.
It may have seemed expedient to Overdrive at the time to piggyback Kindle lending off Amazon lending DRM and servers, but that decision appears to have come back to bite them.