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Overdrive has an exclusive agreement with Amazon to deliver ebooks in the Kindle format. If your local library does business with another provider, such as 3M or Baker & Taylor you are out of luck.

AFor technical reasons, you're locked out of the Hennepin County Library's eBook program for now. Its eBooks aren't compatible with the Amazon Kindle's DRM (digital rights management) software, which ...