Thread: Forma Which overdrive ebooks from your library can't be downloaded/read on your Kobo?
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Old 10-26-2019, 11:39 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by MGlitch View Post
I imagine it’s all tied up in gobility gook legalese having to do with rights to distribute which causes the layman to say “this makes no sense you’re utilizing the same system just send the best available match’ to which lawyers reply ‘but then we wouldn’t have jobs’.
THIS. I'm confident they could find a way to serve up different editions (might be easy, might be hard, but likely could be done technically), BUT I'd be willing to bet that legal agreements would prohibit this, and I'd bet the publishers aren't interested at all in making it easier to borrow books based on other library relate decisions they've taken.
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