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Originally Posted by murg
There is no way that Rakuten is going to pull support for Kindles. Not only does it significantly reduce the level of contracted service being provided by Overdrive, in the US it will lock most patrons out of the library.
If they were to do this, Amazon would build a library service, under price Overdrive, and drive Overdrive out of business.
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I'm not worried about them pulling support -- I'm worried about them making poor decisions, in management, or infrastructure or in new software. OverDrive works well at this point -- Kobo's market (and device software updates) don't always. (Of course that may be pure Kobo -- it's possible that Rakuten has left them alone.) Hopefully Rakuten leaves OverDrive's staff in place but I'm afraid that's probably not a realistic hope.