Thread: Pottermore reaches agreement with OverDrive for library dist.
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Old 03-02-2012, 05:14 PM   #130
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
Selling and distributing/authenticating are two different things.
Pottermore can sell the ebooks and send the transaction to be fullfilled by Amazon.
Hardly brain surgery.
And Amazon would be willing to do this because...?

Why would Amazon allow someone else to use their servers for authentication, unless they're getting a cut of the price? (Why would a site not limited to Kindle-only mobi files want to use Amazon for authentication?)
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