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Originally Posted by stumped
1. Because they now own 2 sets of e lending. Overdrive and rbdigital. It makes no sense to keep both brands
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So KKR own rbdigital and Overdrive. Why assume Overdrive is going away?
If you own two cars, one fairly nice and one a rust heap and you decide you only need one car, would you dump the nice car?
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3 overdrive had got themselves into a bit of a branding mess and of technical confusion with multiple ways to access: checkout with overdrive account, library card., Read online in browser. Libby looked like a good way forward which hid all the messy and confusing Adobe ID stuff under the bonnet. The direct from overdrive to kobo route also did away with the need to know or care about Adobe...
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None of that seems to have anything to do with Overdrive being purchased.
It seems just as valid based on what evidence is available that the new owners would continue on the improvements.
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If kkr tell kobo that fees for overdrive integration,/licensing are going up, will kobo keep it or drop it
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That of course would be Kobo's call. But again: would Kobo think it is a good idea to completely drop the ability to check out library books from their devices?
And then there's Amazon. Do you think they would drop Overdrive from Kindles without some sort of back-up plan?
look, I could be wrong. But honestly, there just isn't enough info to draw real conclusions. And six pages of angst about the death of Overdrive based on not much just seems silly.