There are specialty e-distributor such as netflix that takes Wal-Mart out of the DVD competition but that is simply too costly to create.
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Penguin, for instance, is embarking on its library lending pilot with e-book distributor (and German industrial giant) 3M, some say because it may not want to do business with OverDrive.
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To match that, Sony has partnered with OverDrive, a distributor of e-books to libraries, to offer its customers easy access to the local library's collection of e-books.
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