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Yes, I did note the "entirely". Personally, my feeling is that Apprentice Alf and Calibre make that "entirely" hard to accept at this time.
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If you DeDRM your library loans you are a dirty thief.
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Not to mention that the majority of ebooks are read on non-eInk readers -- Android, iOS and Windows tablets are pretty much agnostic when it comes to ebook format and tablets of whatever flavour are the reading platform for the vast majority (last numbers I saw was that eInk ereaders were about 9% of the ereading market).
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And why does that even have the slightest marginal
anything to do with
people who read on Kindles?
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OTOH, I have a tendency to believe in profit being the motive driving most corporations. If Overdrive was making a profit supplying Kindle format ebooks to libraries in the USA, I can't see Rakuten changing that without a compelling reason given the American ereader market is dominated by Amazon.
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Because they might think (and there is no reason to think they would be wrong) that they will make more money by taking away one of the compelling attractions of a Kindle (direct library checkouts) and offering that as an exclusive Kobo advantage. Selling more Kobos makes them more money in the long run than selling library Kindlebooks.
They might one day actually try to make themselves known in the U.S....
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OYAH, I find the tendency of denizens of the USA to believe they inhabit the center of the universe to be humourous. Recent example was a review of ereaders where 4 Amazon Kindle and 3 B&N Nook devices were the only entries in the eInk segment.
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I'm sorry, where did I imply that the US is the center of the universe?
From my perspective, as a US Kindle owner, this is an ominous occurrence. I have every right to consider things as potentially bad insomuch as they might affect
me that way.
You are more than welcome to consider anything you damn well want to be as good or bad as you like, I promise I won't stop you.