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Originally Posted by radiationman
Amazon's DMCA take down to Mobileread looks like Amazon addressing library loaners... With that letter Amazon is making it very clear - you can only get content on the Kindle unless it's either from (Kindle store) or through (e-mail of supported files for conversion) Amazon...
In all honesty, I didn't care about Amazon giving in to the Author's Guild over the text to speech this however is another story...
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I doubt that was a huge issue. Didn't the letter included a URL to a thread about iPhone? I think they got worried with all the discussion about how owners of iPhones could put their content on other devices. Kindlepid and Kindlefix have been out for ages without them caring. Libraries for ebooks aren't really any more of a threat than physical libraries. The collections are small and you have to wait for the popular titles. I probably use the library more than most and I still buy the vast majority of my books from Amazon.
Besides, you can easily get library content on your Kindle without Kindlepid. You just use a different PID and use mobidedrm.