OverDrive limits choices for some libraries

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In addition to the restrictions from several of the "big 6" publishers--Macmillan and Simon & Schuster don't allow ebooks through Overdrive at all, Penguin's stopped allowing new content & shut off Kindle access, and Harper Collins only lets them be loaned out 26 times--a new twist in the OverDrive contract has turned up: different selection based on libraries' card policies. If the library allows non-residents access to their ebooks, they get a much smaller selection.

And they work to hide that detail, because dayamn I couldn't write a less-clear contract bit if I tried:

( This is an *impressive* example of obfuscatory verbiage )