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Originally Posted by Fbone
I wonder if their contract with Overdrive ended. If Overdrive increased costs to retailers like they did to libraries, then goodbye.
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I thought the increased costs to libraries were due to increased numbers of checkouts (due to ebooks & digital audiobooks increasing in popularity) which led to increased DRM fees which OD had to some extent been absorbing in some of their older deals with libraries. That and increased support and bandwidth requirements with the increased traffic.
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Originally Posted by skinmaan
Everything I had seen through B&N was DRM-free. As a matter of fact, the only one of the sellers I know who did WMVs was AudiobookstandDl. Everyone else (that I've found to date) was DRM-free.
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Books On Board did DRM'd WMA's for some titles too. Just like with the library it depended on the publisher and whether they required DRM or not. If B&N didn't do DRM'd WMA and only MP3 (the only formats OD offered) then they were missing a very large chunk of available audiobooks through OD.
OD has mentioned finally dropping WMA DRM, but it's unclear how many of those titles where DRM was required will continue to be part of OD's catalog in the future (or if the publishers will pull them).