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All this will inspire is the following: download the epub, open with Calibre (with tools) and convert to mobi, send to Kindle...
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Only if you know how to convert ebook formats and most of America is clueless about these things.
If Penguin is going to argue that this was done for security reasons then they should only allow books from the IStore to be loaned since that is the only DRM I know of that has not been hacked. |
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We cannot post how to do it on this website for legal reasons. No magazine or newspaper is going to post how you strip DRM and convert the files.
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I know the solution... Keep the Amazon away from library eBooks. It seems that every time Amazon is involved in something new (new to the Kindle) to do with eBooks, we end up paying for it somehow in a not good way.
Agency model & library book debacle with Penguin are two things that are not good for eBooks and Amazon is smack bang in the middle it all of this. |
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Because Amazon is the organization that lifted ebooks from obscurity and transformed them from the province of geeks to a mainstream commodity? Because by doing so, they made themselves the larges ebook retailer by a large margin?
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Amazon is in the middle of these things because the Publishers fear Amazon. Plain and simple. Agency Pricing, which hurt all of those who read e-books, is a reaction to Amazon lowering e-book prices.
Now Penguin is throwing a hissy fit because it fears a market dominated by Amazon. How library books on a Kindle hurt Penguin but library books on a Sony are fine is beyond me. Penguin is throwing a temper tantrum and acting like a spoiled child. And posts like JSWolf's are simply re-enforcing that childish behavior and attitude. Since Amazon and Overdrive worked out the technical problems or whatever the hold up was, there is no good reason to tell people with Kindles that they cannot check out library books. I don't care that folks with Sonys and Nooks and Kobos are bummed that the library lines got longer. Kindle users pay library fees just like Sony users and are entitled to check e-books out from the library just like any other ereader users. |
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Penguin ebooks in Kindle format have been restored according to Overdrive.
No new Penguin published ebooks will be available in Overdrive at this time. http://overdriveblogs.com/library/ |
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