Comments on: Libraries Got Screwed by Amazon and Overdrive

By: Les bibliothèques numériques dans les nuages sont-elles compatibles avec les missions de lecture publique ? La veille apprivoisée #13 · Omnimata

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:38:54 +0000

[...] proposés par des prestataires privés et financés par de l’argent public. Pour mémoire cette autre vidéo de Sarah Houghton déjà évoquée ici [...]

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:08:27 +0000

This specific issue is for Amazon/Kindle users only.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:02:01 +0000

Is that problem only with Kindle users? Are is this a problem with all overdrive users?

By: Phil W

Phil W — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:19:00 +0000

I just got a Kindle and totally and completely agree with your rant. I was given my kindle as a gift from my sister, whom I love. I cannot check out anything without making a purchase from Amazon i and everything i have uploaded so far has been considered the property of Amazon. I already talked to my librarian about the privacy issue before seeing your site. Now I know at least I am not alone in this.

I have been a journalist for 25 years and have seen nothing like Amazon’s invasion of privacy. i tried to write a comment on THEIR site even though I had a Kindle Fire, they said I had to buy something before posting.
So here was the gist of my post to them:

How do you spell Orwell’s “1984″? A-M-A-Z-O-N.
Thank you so much for letting me know people care about this.

Phil W

By: Librarian Attacks Amazon’s Kindle Lending Program | JetLib News

Librarian Attacks Amazon’s Kindle Lending Program | JetLib News — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:27:20 +0000

[...] to the RSS feed for updates on this topic. destinyland writes “A California librarian is urging librarians to complain to Amazon over issues with privacy and advertising in Amazon’s new Kindle ebook lending program for [...]

By: Sam - Adelaide Mortgage Broker

Sam - Adelaide Mortgage Broker — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 02:15:28 +0000

I agree! I must admit i haven’t been to a library in years! But I have bought books from Amazon.

By: Deb Smith-Cohen

Deb Smith-Cohen — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 03:06:08 +0000

OK, just seeing this video and struggling with the issues you raise, which I have struggled with over the last year. Your content is not news to me, of course. I’m still struggling with customers who don’t think they care about privacy and a library administration, like most, that doesn’t want to challenge OverDrive in the face of demand for eBooks with Kindle compatibility. I can direct customers to Adobe Digital Editions but that won’t work for folks who think that their eReader choice was neutral and don’t get the privacy price. Heck, without that issue, the service ease and responsiveness of Amazon would be the ideal scenario. How do we raise the privacy issue above the convenience issue? Is it a losing battle? Who has any ideas about how to, at the very least, insist that client library systems are part of the corporate contracting process at OverDrive in the future? (Yes, I appreciate that OverDrive, like many companies, started as niche companies with a conscribed market that unexpectedly grew out of control.) They may not be evil, but they are behaving evilly and we owe our public to label them as such.

By: The World Turned Upside Down | Peer to Peer Review

The World Turned Upside Down | Peer to Peer Review — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:34:44 +0000

[...] patrons were reading (down to which pages they look at). Sara Houghton-Jan, the Librarian in Black, summed it up nicely as an unacceptable insult to our principles. Jessamyn West has just shared a patron’s [...]

By: Spartacus

Spartacus — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:51:35 +0000

Do video stores keep our records of what we rent? Do cable television companies keep track of what we watch and when? Give ‘em an inch….. I get why this librarian is so concerned about privacy. We all should be.

By: Non-Amazon Resources Post! « extribulum

Non-Amazon Resources Post! « extribulum — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:04:07 +0000

[...] lastly, Seventy has more news about Amazon: they’re collecting data on library ebook use. This might not seem at all strange to some, but most librarians are horrified at the idea of [...]