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OverDrive spokesperson Dan Stasiewski told LJ that the increase in fees under the first proposal was necessitated by the ten-fold increase in circulation that Kansas's digital collection has had since 2006, even as fees have remained flat.
"This utilizes additional hosting, bandwidth, network and support services," he said, which OverDrive has been absorbing the cost of. "In the end that seven times increase [detailed below] is coming down to around $200 a library in 2014," he said.
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From 2006 to 2011 there has been a ten-fold increase in circulation. Is it wrong for them to assume that there will be a similar increase in the coming years? And again, right now it costs $32 for an entire year for each library. That comes to less than $3 each month.