Overdrive announced Monday that Penguin “instructed” them to “disable ‘Get for Kindle’ functionality for all Penguin ebooks” that Overdrive supplies to libraries, in what the service calls an “abrupt change.” Penguin also told OverDrive “it is reviewing terms for library lending of their ebooks” and has suspended availability to libraries for the new ebook releases….
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