Week 9 - Thing 22 - Audiobooks

I already have accounts with Netlibrary and Overdrive and am familiar with how they operate. In fact I order some of the material for Overdrive. The advantage with Netlibrary is that you have unlimited access to all titles. Overdrive however is a single use operation except for film and a select list of 50 titles from Blackstone audio. Although it provides a good variety of material that is not on Netlibrary, it does have the problem of many items having hold lists. This is due to the fact that it serves as the audiobook source for most of Maryland. The problem with both sites is that they both have DRM which means that I-pod users can not access the materials on these sites. If the day ever comes that audiobook producers see that people are not likely to be wanting to " bootleg" the free from your library copy of an audiobook, I think we will see a tremendous increase in downloadable audiobook circulation.