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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Penguin pulled Kindle eBooks from the library in protest. Then they put them back and decided to not allow any new eBooks be it ePub or Kindle. This is because Overdrive/Amazon broke the agreement.
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When and where did they say they weren't allowing any new eBooks strictly because of the Kindle deal? I know it happened around the same time, but if that was the reason (or the only reason) then they'd be selling their full catalog through other library services like 3M.
I think it was an excuse for them to get out of something they didn't want to do anymore under current terms and if it hadn't been that it would have been something else. From reading various things it sounds like one of the reasons they were pissed about the Amazon library deal was that Amazon refused to share customer data with them. Yes, apparently OverDrive broke an agreement, although supposedly they also consulted with the various publishers before any of this went live and none voiced complaints. So again I ask for some kind of info from Penguin that states that the reason they stopped selling library books was due to the Kindle deal (which they had already shown they could limit when they had OD remove the Kindle versions of their books for a time).