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Originally Posted by MGlitch
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’.
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Originally Posted by robko
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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I got thinking about this after MGlitch's response and I'm pretty sure this is probably the issue. I guess that's one advantage of being able to download the actual edition that the library has on hand — but, then again, it appears that Amazon has been able to work around this problem somehow. I'm pretty sure what they offer on their bookstore won't always match the edition in the Overdrive library — maybe that's why the Overdrive library doesn't list an ISBN for Kindle books?
At any rate, it is what it is.