<p>Here is a more complete look at Penguin and other publishers problems with Overdrive, kindles and the agreement with Amazon.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Molly Raphael" <<a href="mailto:mraphael@rapgroup.com">mraphael@rapgroup.com</a>><br>Date: Feb 10, 2012 2:15 PM<br>Subject: [alacoun] More on Penguin<br>
To: "ALA Council" <<a href="mailto:alacoun@ala.org">alacoun@ala.org</a>><br><br type="attribution"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px"><div><div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
Here is more info which helps provide background to this complex issue… Thanks to Carrie Russell for sharing.</div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Times"><i>Molly Raphael</i></span></font></font></div>
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<font color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Times"><i>American Library Association</i></span></font></font></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Times"><a href="http://www.ala.org" target="_blank"><i>http://www.ala.org</i></a></span></div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Times"><i><a href="tel:503-548-7747" value="+15035487747" target="_blank">503-548-7747</a></i></span></font></font></div>
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<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> Carrie Russell [<a href="mailto:crussell@alawash.org" target="_blank">mailto:crussell@alawash.org</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 10, 2012 4:38 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:dcwg@ala.org" target="_blank">dcwg@ala.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [dcwg] more on Penguin<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif">Digging down a bit on why Penguin has called it quits with OverDrive…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif"><a href="http://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2012/02/penguin-withdraws-from-overdrive-looks-for-new-library-partners/" target="_blank">http://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2012/02/penguin-withdraws-from-overdrive-looks-for-new-library-partners/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Carrie Russell, Director<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Program on Public Access to Information <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">American Library Association<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Office for Information Technology Policy<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">1615 New Hampshire Avenue NW, First Floor<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Washington, DC 20009<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">202.628.8410/800.941.8478<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="tel:202.628.8419" value="+12026288419" target="_blank">202.628.8419</a> (fax)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">crussell at alawash dot org<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
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