Saw this after renting a couple ebooks from the Amazon Lending Library via the Greater Phoenix Library system. It's a good system, but Sarah makes excellent points that I know that I as a customer was not aware of and it makes me more than a little worried that libraries got screwed by this.
Libraries Got Screwed by Amazon and Overdrive | Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghtonlibrarianinblack.net
Below is my 10 minute rant about why the Kindle format lending from Overdrive is anti-user, anti-intellectual freedom, anti-library, and something that all librarians should be aware of and disturbed by. Amazon and Overdrive did wrong by us, and we bent over and took it. Watch to learn more. Warn...
Published on October 30, 2011 22:58