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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
Actually there was an ebook distributor at CES right in the eBook tech zone. OverDrive had a booth right next to Pocketbook just across the walkway from Freescale. So to say there was "Not a single purveyor of content" is wrong.
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Overdrive isn't a publisher; it's a distributor. And while I suppose that's a "purveyor of content," I don't think that invalidates the point of the article: that those who are in the business of making new content available (rather then making available content that someone else has made) are not getting involved with the industries that will showcase their content in the future.
If someone were complaining about no movie studios sending a rep to a conference about digital imaging and sound compression, I don't think saying "but Netflix was there" would change that point.
Overdrive, AFAIK, cannot set the terms for digital distribution of content; they're bound by whatever the publishers allow them. They can't take advantage of new possibilities in the technology--can't allow customers, for example, to create their own libraries using Nook's filesharing abilities; can't allow substitution of user fonts or custom CSS settings for the default ones in ePubs.