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2. Kindle Direct Publishing - Wikipedia

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   Kindle Direct Publishing is Amazon.com's e-book publishing platform launched in November 2007, concurrently with the first Amazon Kindle device. Originally called Digital Text Platform, the platform allows authors and publishers to publish their books to the Amazon Kindle Store .

3. E-book lending - Wikipedia

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   As of 2014, over 90% of U.S. public libraries offer ebook lending. [1] Many of those libraries use Rakuten OverDrive, which provides ebook access to about 43,000 libraries and schools in 76 countries. [2] Overdrive is the only eLending service that works with the Amazon Kindle, but that functionality is limited to U.S. library readers only. [3]

4. Kindle Store - Wikipedia

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   The Kindle Store is an online e-book e-commerce store operated by Amazon as part of its retail website and can be accessed from any Amazon Kindle, Fire tablet, or Kindle mobile app. At the launch of the Kindle in November 2007, the store had more than 88,000 digital titles available in the U.S. store. [ 2 ]

5. Online book rental - Wikipedia

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   Users browse books online and have their choices home-delivered, rather than physically visiting a library to borrow a book. This e-commerce model is comparable to the video rental service provided Netflix. In 2009, online book rental was gaining popularity in India, with a number of websites offering free doorstep delivery for a small monthly fee.

6. Amazon Kindle - Wikipedia

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   The Kindle stores this information on all Amazon e-books but it is unclear if this data is stored for non-Amazon e-books. [40] There is a lack of e-reader data privacy — Amazon knows the user's identity, what the user is reading, whether the user has finished the book, what page the user is on, how long the user has spent on each page, and ...

7. OverDrive, Inc. - Wikipedia

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   OverDrive, Inc. is a worldwide digital distributor of ebooks, audiobooks, online magazines and streaming video titles. The company provides digital rights management and download fulfillment services for publishers, public libraries, K–12 schools, colleges, universities, corporations, legal industries, and formerly retailers.

8. Digital rights management - Wikipedia

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   Barnes & Noble uses DRM technology provided by Adobe, applied to EPUBs and the older PDB (Palm OS) format e-books. Amazon's DRM is an adaption of the original Mobipocket encryption and is applied to Amazon's .azw4, KF8, and Mobipocket format e-books. Topaz format e-books have their own encryption system. [106]

9. Calibre (software) - Wikipedia

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   Calibre supports organizing existing e-books into virtual libraries, displaying, editing, creating and converting e-books, as well as syncing e-books with a variety of e-readers. Editing books is supported for EPUB and AZW3 formats. Books in other formats like MOBI must first be converted to those formats, if they are to be edited. Calibre also ...