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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
To the public at large? You've mentioned library books a bit, how many libraries support contemporary fiction in non ADE in the USA or outside of it.
Which US libraries offer other formats? Are there the same quantities of kindle (any and all formats) available in major US libraries as there are epub. Or any other formats for standard in copyright library loans? I can't find any (not 1 kindle ebook) but I have only looked at 10 and probably the wrong 10.
Outside of certain communities I think few remove DRM. Perhaps you have statistics that say otherwise, please let me know because all I can get from your posts recently in this thread is that you are saying the same thing over and over in the hopes you will wear people down by sheer stubborn repetition.
No offense intended.
Helen
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The vaast majority of the books I read, at least, are available as Kindle books. Any US library that owns those books will have access to both the ADE and the Kindle checkout options.
If you would like to check out the
http://hadc.lib.overdrive.com and
http://overdrive.slcl.com for example, they both have large selections.
Regarding the removal of DRM, I have no idea how many people do it. But the people who know enough to whine about the "EPUB standard" will also know enough to be able to strip DRM. The rest are most likely just buying from the builtin store of
whatever reader they have and don't concern themselves with weird things like formats and files and other arcane stuff.
Or perhaps I am just being too cynical?
It is possible...