Collection Developments @ Sno-Isle

Random House audio books will begin selling their titles without DRM soon. Why should you care? DRM is the stuff that makes our OverDrive audiobooks incompatible with the iPod, since Apple uses a different version of DRM, than Microsoft. Yes, its one of those Apple vs. Microsoft things…. So, if other publishers follow suit and choose to sell their titles without DRM, theres no obstacle to prevent our downloadable audio books being compatible with iPod. Of course its never quite as simple as it seems on the surface, but I feel optomistic about things, and can’t wait to see what OverDrive will have to say about this news, and its implications later this year at Digipalooza.

Getting all ready for Digipalooza this morning. I leave Seattle tonight late and arrive in Cleveland early Friday morning.

Post script to this post.  This conference spent a good deal of time listening to speakers, I easily could have blogged this conference to better share some of the information I learned–if I had a laptop with me.