Amazon blocked new audiobooks from public libraries?
One of my readers, Deborah Meyer, gave me a heads-up on an interesting story.
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licenses for titles already in the system remain, but the acquisition of additional licenses (for the same or different titles) will not be possible after the communication .
If overdrive publisher Penguin has recently restricted access, there was a lot of repression. People do not know how the idea of books (e-books, audio books, or other) are not available to public libraries.
Macmillan and Simon & Schuster any license e-books in libraries around the world.
HarperCollins limits the number of check-out.
Frankly, it’s not easy to move as an order Amazon, I felt, but I know it’s just my reaction emotional to be a good personal relationship with Amazon customers.
Amazon price has not been in overdrive system for e-books for quite a while for people with Sony drives and corners as they could.
get is how to be a radical change occur. Brilliance has promoted its connection to libraries in the past:
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I see nothing Brilliance categories in any of them.
I see a few options:
Amazon did something dramatic with his relationship with overdrive … perhaps setting up some of their own sales by public libraries? Overdrive really dominated this market now
Amazon Books Brilliance Audio Library Loan Management Kindle (KOLL) add. Amazon announced that members of the Premier would get additional benefits. This could be a lot of sense: he could imagine people talking about books. It is time to go through an audio book … this number would be “borrowed” from the Koll, which reduce the profitability improves for Amazon. It makes the KOLL attractive to sell more Kindle (people with applications Kindle can not use the Koll, now), and gets more Prime-members sold more “diapers and wipes.” Of course, it does not automatically mean that the books are not available in public libraries so that they could be. I can imagine, negotiating with rights holders … “We put in KOLL and to public libraries.” This may be temporary, while some contract negotiations with overdrive
worked
I wrote Brilliance
this morning and asked for an explanation.
I am interested in your thoughts on this, especially if you work for a public library … or if you use one of the audio books. If this Amazon / Brilliance simply withdraw from Overdrive, how would this affect your perception of the company? If you audiobooks in the KOLL? Are audio books has been an important part of your book, feel free to post this comment and let me know.
Last update: One of my readers, Mary, the good thing that this does not seem to have an impact on audio books on CD digital downloads only. Interestingly enough, which can be beyond the ecosystem Overdrive work … Bufo Calvin’s contribution originally appeared in I Love My Kindle Blog. 
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