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“Overdrive”, if you’ve never heard of them is a company established in 1986 with strong ties to Microsoft. They are the number one lender of digital material to libraries and schools…Monopoly. Penquin made news last year by severing ties. The company got slammed by the ALA when it was discovered they were offering different catalogs of books to different libraries at different prices.
Interesting how it will shake out…
“Vendors and publishers can and do reserve the right to modify or erase ebooks and other digital content. Readers can turn on their devices to find that a particular ebook has vanished without a trace, as Kindle users did after Amazon decided to erase an edition of George Orwell’s 1984 from Kindle devices after a licensing dispute. But copyright and contract are not the only reasons content can disappear; under the terms of service provisions contained in most ebook licenses, vendors and publishers can remove or alter texts for any reason, including a desire to avoid controversial content.”
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org...d-users-rights
Interesting how it will shake out…
“Vendors and publishers can and do reserve the right to modify or erase ebooks and other digital content. Readers can turn on their devices to find that a particular ebook has vanished without a trace, as Kindle users did after Amazon decided to erase an edition of George Orwell’s 1984 from Kindle devices after a licensing dispute. But copyright and contract are not the only reasons content can disappear; under the terms of service provisions contained in most ebook licenses, vendors and publishers can remove or alter texts for any reason, including a desire to avoid controversial content.”
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org...d-users-rights
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