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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
I'm not trying to give the impression that I feel someone else has to make my decisions - but I can't understand the vilification of Penguin when Amazon and Overdrive has just as big (if not bigger) a part to play in this mess.
But I've read pages and pages of outrage and anger at Penguin - while brushing off the whole idea of the breaking of the contract between Penguin (and what sounds like other publishers) and OD by OD - which gives Amazon an unfair business advantage.
So - for me - the majority of this thread feels very lopsided. There's more to this situation than "Penguin hates libraries!" and that is what's bothering me.
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Totally agree with you here - there are a lot of players in this fiasco, and many of them are at least partly responsible. Penguin only has the distinction of being the most recent to pull out. OD could have had it set up so that a AZW DRM server was part of their system instead of kicking over to Amazon. Any breach of terms that resulted from the current system is squarely on OD. I'm not even going into the other pubs that have already pulled out or never offered library ebooks, because at this point I've forgotten what their various excuses are, but they should be on the ishlist too.
And I didn't mean to come across as though I thought you expected others to make your decisions, I just sometimes worry that people forget WHY others make different decisions. It's so easy for these things to dissolve into chaos, as they are doing elsewhere on the forum. I should have stated things better.
I think perhaps I'm feeling a little battered because reading has suddenly become a moral issue. And I'm not talking about the content, either.
(I think by now, everyone has a pretty good idea of what I'm hiding on my Kindle...)