The thing with Overdrive is signing up for it, or finding someone at the
regional library for the blind who knows what it is so I could get my login
for it.
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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
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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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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.
