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OverDrive offers DRM-free audiobook downloads.(News)(digital rights management)(Brief article)

American Libraries

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Providing audiobooks to patrons became easier recently when digital distributor OverDrive began making titles available in a DRM-free format compatible with iPods and most other MP3 players as well as most cell phones. The initial OverDrive MP3 Audiobooks catalog for public libraries offers more than 3,000 popular novels, children's books, and classics, complementing the firm's 20,000 DRM-protected audiobooks in the Windows-based WMA format and 80,000 e-books.

The service was launched at the District of Columbia Public Library in June, and since then dozens of libraries have followed, including the New York, Brooklyn, Queens, and Boston public libraries, said OverDrive …

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