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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
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.
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Right, I thought that was the fee that was covering DRM charges, bandwidth, developing websites for the libraries and increased tech support. It would make sense for it to go up with all of the increased usage and in return increased costs associated with that. Whether it's reasonable or not I have no idea, but so far I haven't seen libraries flocking to competing systems so I guess I figured they all charged similar admin fees.