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Originally Posted by Fbone

I wonder if this explains the dramatic price increases Overdrive will be charging libraries starting 2012. The annual account administration fees are doubling for some libraries next year and then doubling again for 2013.

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Wow; that's not good. Do you have any idea what those fees are in dollars? and where do you get info like this?

Originally Posted by Fbone

Here's an article from Library Journal where the Kansas State Librarian discusses the issue. She provides specific details.

http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/new...eball.html.csp

The article says Overdrive sent the notice of the doubling fees way back in September, so I doubt it was because of Kindlers coming on board.

It says there was a ten-fold increase in circulation in Kansas' digital collection from 2006 to Sept 2010, with no added charges in all that time, and that Kansas' centralized operation also presented challenges.

So they more than doubled their demand every year, and now their fees will double every year.

It makes sense that increased circulation will result in increased fees, but circulation was rising steeply already and was going to continue. They said that here in 2011, they were already almost at 2010's total levels.

Choices and adjustments need to be made all around, but they were already coming.

Will it be a net burden or benefit?

It depends on what matters most to tax payers (which includes kindlers) and how well the funds are managed. I hope they're managed well, because I think we'll all benefit from increased popularity of ebooks in libraries.