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2. 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.

3. Goodreads - Wikipedia

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   Goodreads is an American social cataloging website and a subsidiary of Amazon [1] that allows individuals to search its database of books, annotations, quotes, and reviews. Users can sign up and register books to generate library catalogs and reading lists. They can also create their own groups of book suggestions, surveys, polls, blogs, and ...

4. Project Gutenberg - Wikipedia

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   Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3]

5. 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 ]

6. Amazon Books - Wikipedia

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   Local bookstores in the Seattle area described wariness over the physical presence of Amazon.com, with the University Book Store in the U District noting "different spending patterns" two months after the opening of Amazon's store; an Amazon spokesperson dismissed the notion that Amazon Books would interfere with independent bookstores and their operations, stating that "offline retail is a ...

7. 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 ...

8. ThriftBooks - Wikipedia

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   The first library systems to join were King County, Pierce County, and North Central. [ 6 ] Thriftbooks is popular among book collectors—particularly with those shoppers choosing to avoid Amazon—for being one of few North American online bookselling platforms that is independent rather than a subsidiary of retail giant Amazon .

9. Smashwords - Wikipedia

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   Smashwords achieved a profit in 2010 and has distributed some of its books via Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Sony, [4] and KDP, Amazon.com's e-book publishing website. In 2012, Smashwords announced that it would partner with 3M Cloud Library, which would allow for the option for their authors' books to be available in libraries, [ 5 ] and that ...