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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
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.
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).
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Overdrive charges a fee just to use the system and I believe that cost went up by quite a bit. It was already a very expensive system from what my library told me--they had to go in with three other libraries to be part of it because of the expense. That expense is the one that went up.