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Old 01-28-2012, 01:00 PM   #1
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Publishers Discriminating Against Amazon at Libraries?

I often check my libraries "Newly Released Section." I noticed that very few of the books have the Kindle button. They only seem to be available as Adobe ePubs. I've sent a message to my library, but don't expect to hear back until Monday. I was just wondering if anyone else had noticed this or knew why there is less availability for Kindles.

I do have a Sony reader also, but I had gotten used to how convenient it was to only use one reader.
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Old 01-28-2012, 03:27 PM   #2
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I'm not seeing that at mine.
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Old 01-28-2012, 06:01 PM   #3
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There is definitely less availability for Kindles. This has been discussed a bit in the General and News forums. If I come across the topics, I will link to them.
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Old 01-28-2012, 06:04 PM   #4
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It's a mixed bag of books at the King County Library in Washington State, some are available and some aren't. I've read in other post that's it a decision by the publisher not the library.
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Our regional library in the Kansas City area seems to be pretty balanced, with nearly all the books I've looked at available in both formats.
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It's a mixed bag of books at the King County Library in Washington State, some are available and some aren't. I've read in other post that's it a decision by the publisher not the library.
In fact, there are books in the kcls catalog that have a listing for a kindle/mobi format that have had that format removed. It's the @$@#$ publisher. It's mildly annoying that kcls has not removed the link for the missing format.
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I've noticed that, too, at least, at the CLEVNET library. I didn't really look at old titles, but when the September change went into place, I didn't notice any new books not being available in both formats. Then, after Penguin temporarily withdrew its support for Kindle ebooks at the library, I began noticing it on new books from then on. And it's not just Penguin - I've seen it on Harlequin ebooks that only ePub is available.

Now...that MIGHT be because Harlequin makes ePubs available on its own website a month earlier than it releases to other sites, so maybe only ePub was available when the library pre-ordered the books. I haven't gone back to see if Kindle links showed up after the first month.
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