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Originally Posted by whitearrow
I don't think it's the same. Overdrive is an entirely separate product and would be a different licensing fee.
Supporting Overdrive would also take a lot of, well, support, and it wouldn't provide any financial benefit to Amazon. It's also not consistent with the "keep it simple" model Amazon has tried to keep to with the Kindle.
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Overdrive is just a distributor that provides ebooks (and other things) to libraries and also to retailers like Books On Board (Ingram Digital/Lightning Source is another). The DRM is the same as any place that uses Adobe DRM for ebooks (Sony, Kobo, etc.). You don't license Overdrive, you license the SDK from Adobe which AFAIK Amazon has already done (they just haven't enabled DRM support in their PDF support).