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Saturday, February 11, 2012
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“ In a stunning development, Penguin Group has extricated itself from its contract with OverDrive, the primary supplier of ebooks to public libraries. Starting February 10, Penguin, which had recently instituted limitations on library lending for ebooks and audiobooks, will now no longer offer any ebooks or audiobooks through OverDrive.
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Penguin Group Terminating Its Contract with OverDrive — The Digital Shift

I’m sorry, no. This is not a good idea, nor is the fact that Penguin is trying to claim piracy worries (due to the fact that library users have to download the content at home) is their big reason for pulling out. Ha, no. The lies may work with the ALA, but they’re not going to cut it in the real world. It’s all about money, just like the RIAA, etc. More access, not less access, is the solution. 

I wish, as someone who orders books for the two libraries I work at, I could just stop ordering books from Penguin (and Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Hachette, etc), but I can’t. Eff you, publishers. It’s clear you don’t want to embrace the digital content revolution anymore than Hollywood or the RIAA. I hope it bites you in the ass. 

/bitter

Tags: #libraries #digital content #overdrive #penguin #publishers #ebooks #audiobooks
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  2. theupstart13 said: I’m super annoyed by this. I enjoy being able to borrow books form the library on my kindle.
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