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Epub is a publicly disclosed standard and changes to it are done in the full view of the public—well, those who can stay awake reading through the discussions.
OTOH, Amazon does not release information on their proprietary formats and does their best to keep making changes to make it harder to handle their formats outside of Amazon's walled garden. Ask @jhowell who supports several KFX plugins for calibre. A minimal search will show many instances where people have borrowed a library book which was fulfilled by Amazon and received emails based on thos loans. At this time, OverDrive, for instance, has not been caught using information about library patrons' reading choices for their profit.
Heck, Amazon thinks so little of their ebook formats, that the two preferred formats for KDP are DOCX and ePub with mobi being removed from the list a while back. No eating their own dogfood.
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Strange, you talk about moving the goal posts, and then you come up with the above non sequitor rant.
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I will admit finding your claim about libraries outside of the USA taking away choices to be a bit risible. Your original argument was, at best, feeble so you attempt to move the goal posts by—IMHO, falsely—claiming that the only option for reading a library book outside the USA is an epub reader. Perhaps your local libraries do not allow you to read online? Around here, most of the library ebooks show as OverDrive Read so you can read it in your favourite web browser. Many of the local libraries also offer ereader kits that can be checked out by patrons.
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Strange, you bring up Hobson's Choice, and then think that people who own Kindles want to read online or borrow ereader kits.
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Out of curiosity, do any of your local libraries have a privacy officer?
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We have smallish local libraries, so I would guess there is no privacy officer, or no dedicated privacy officer.