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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
The fee increase is because their use of OD has increased 10x what it was in 2006 (the fees have stayed the same even though usage has increased). OD has to pay Adobe every time a DRM license is created for a book, I don't know what fees get paid to MS for the DRM on WMA audiobooks.
If downloads increase then I would suppose fees would too.
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I have seen in one library DRM free ePub. That would mean not using Adobe's DRM servers. But that's an aside.
But the problem we have is the way Overdrive increasing fees. They want to double them in 2012, 2013, & 2014. So here we have an 800% increase in three years. That's just wrong and I can see a lot of libraries dropping out and guess who loses? We do. Also, because Overdrive would not be getting the money they were before, will they then go an raise fees to those libraries still with contracts even more and thus even more libraries drop out aka
CATCH-22.