Loan ebooks: Kindle late restrictions by Penguin - Actualitté.com

crisis paranoia publisher Penguin is now complete. In February 2012, after signing with the specialized distributor OverDrive to supply American libraries in digital books, the house suddenly decided to cut the valves. If the publisher defended want to harm the institutions, it does not decide within suppress the flow.

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End September 2013, Penguin was renewing gently with the loan service digital books, allowing for new, some 18 months later, his ebooks are available. After pretext that minimum security conditions were not insured, to justify his actions, Penguin took the opportunity to completely revise his contract.

“ We are concerned about how to preserve the value of the work of our authors, as far as helping libraries to feed members of their community ‘, we promised in February 2012. The speech, in September 2013, has not changed one iota.

warming trade relations between the two companies pass through to the fact that Kindle ebooks are accessible only through a USB connection. “ In other words, customers will no longer be sent to the Amazon website from Overdrive. Instead, they will need to download the ebooks and transfer them manually on their Kindle “explained OverDrive.

Well, greatness and joy, this heavy restriction is now removed and is no longer need to use the single USB port to charge its securities. To date, the Penguin is offering 17,000 shares for U.S. public and university libraries, sold for a year institutions.

Since December, 15,000 of them are also available in Canada in similar conditions.

via OverDrive

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