True, although that is no great loss from a quality or ownership
standpoint. It is a bit of a loss if you want to download brilliance
audio titles, but if you buy them on mp3 cd or rent them on mp3 cd you
get absolutely magnificent mp3 quality on any player of your choice.
So, I think I will not morn overdrive. I only wanted to mention it to
round out the list of major download providers. I believe net library
is also not mac os compadible. Toronto Public Library is an overdrive
provider I do believe. I've never checked it out, but I'm pretty sure
we don't have access to netlibrary anyway.
Best,
Erik
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On 20-May-08, at 7:21 PM, Richie Gardenhire wrote:
Overdrive only works on Windows, I was informed. Richie Gardenhire,
Anchorage, Alaska.
On May 20, 2008, at 3:32 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Oh my goodness no.
The two services I really like are emusic download service and
kitabe.com audiobook rentals on mp3 cd.
There is also pay per listen, which is a service of audiobooks.com.
Then there is overdrive which sells and loans downloads. Then there
is netlibrary, which is a competater to overdrive that just serves
library markets. Books in motion just released it's own direct to
customer download service which is kind'a nice since they just
happen to have a pile of stuff I want, and their files are non-drm.
I haven't bought one yet though. I just found out about it
yesterday, so I can't say what the quality is like.
Randomhouse is also supposed to have it's own download service I got
a big press release about it from a couple of sources but that was
before the great imap disaster that tossed a thick stack of email
out the window. I just googled it and got the audiobook download
faq, but it just sends you off to emusic, audible, and overdrive. .
So, of the mainstays of download, audible, overdrive pay per listen,
and emusic, the only non-drm provider is emusic. That might in
fact, probably will change now that amazon owns both Brilliance
Corporation and Audible.com. Just how it will change is going to be
interesting, since all of briliance's titles are right now licenced
exclusively to overdrive, which is the direct competater of audible,
which is the download service owned by the same company that owns
the publisher. It's a nice little conflict of interest that has
people speculating that the entire world of mainstream audiobooks
will go fully non-DRM driven by Amazon which already has a major
label non-drm mp3 music service and a streaming ebook service.
You can wake up now, smiles. So to answer your question, audible's
not the only one.
Best,
Erik
erik burggraaf
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On 20-May-08, at 1:04 PM, Brent Harding wrote:
Isn't Audible about the only one out there?
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Subject: My Wife Has a Question
For Father's Day, my wife wants to get a subscription for me to
get audiobooks. Of the services out there, which one gives the
overall, best service for the money? Richie Gardenhire,
Anchorage, Alaska.
