Thread: Smashwords titles head for Libraries
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Old 05-24-2014, 02:22 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
But Smashwords doesn't use DRM. And OverDrive offers DRM-free books as well. So where is the cost of the DRM coming from, if OverDrive isn't applying DRM to the books?

Unless Smashwords is using DRM for library loans? (reasonable...)
I suspect Smashwords provides a plain ePub, and Overdrive adds the DRM. Similarly, Sony (and Diesel, I think) applied DRM to Smashwords-supplied books.
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