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Originally Posted by HarryT
Amazon don’t care where you bought the books that you load onto your Kindle. Why do you think they do?
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Because if they can determine what kind of books you like, they can hit you with targeted advertising to try and sell you those kind of books.
Just like the guy who offhandedly mentioned on Facebook that he was thinking about getting a cat. Then he was suddenly spammed with all kinds of ads for cat food. Never had any of those before. Does Facebook "care" that he owns a cat (funny that he didn't, but was just thinking about getting one)? No, they don't care. What they care about is getting money from advertisers who want to sell him cat food.
That's why Amazon wants to know what kind of books you like, whether you bought them from Amazon, side loaded them, checked them out of the library, or whatever. Think about it, why in the world would Overdrive be sending you to Amazon to check out your library books? No doubt Amazon pays Overdrive for the privilege of being allowed to harvest your data. Overdrive loves it, Amazon loves it, and YOU are the product that they are selling back and forth.