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Originally Posted by rcentros
I'm not worried about Overdrive going away, I'm worried about it being changed or "folded into" RBDigital or vice versa. The fact that KKR has now bought two direct competitors seems to indicate that something will change. Right now a lot of libraries use both RBDigital and Overdrive. It doesn't seem feasible that this will continue into the future.
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Why must there be two different services? If RBDigital and OverDrive are merged into one thing, why is that bad?
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As for point two... the major eReader sellers are also eBook sellers. When Kobo and Overdrive where owned by the same company, it made sense that they would offer integration between Kobo devices and Overdrive. What will be the incentive for Kobo to do this when they make money on book sales but not on Overdrive loans? (Unless there is a "kickback" from Overdrive, which there may be, I don't know.)
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And yet Kindles have worked with OverDrive for years. What was Amazon's incentive? It sure wasn't the threat of Kobo readers (which essentially weren't sold in the US until recently).
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Originally Posted by rcentros
Or they could end up with something like Hoopla, where it's either "streaming" online or an Android app. That's the main thing I'm worried about, a Hoopla-like "solution."
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Hey, it
could happen. But neither RBDigital or OverDrive work that way now. So this company would have to abandon both of their current programs and create a new one.