Um...

Dec. 22nd, 2010 11:21 am
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My library has Overdrive. It's a database of downloadable audio books and ebooks. (Pet peeve: e-audio. Does ANYONE outside of library-land call it e-audio?) Yes, that means that you can DOWNLOAD EBOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY. Which I still think is unbelievably cool.

One of the particular quirks, though, is that you subscribe to the platform, but still have to select and buy each individual title.

Barb was browsing for audio books today, so I was poking at the site.

Um. Apparently, we have Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty series. All three of them. As audio books.

I mean, we have 'em in print, too, but audio book? Heh.

(On a totally unrelated note, if anyone wants a Dreamwidth invite code, lemme know...)

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Date: 2010-12-23 10:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] paige-eliz.livejournal.com
Have we figured out who ordered them? My guess is the same person who ordered them in print, and my money is on BR. At least is bulks up our "erotic literature" section - though only 1/3 show in that category. We also have a selection of Christmas erotica... http://downloads.chinookarch.ca/D62EDC32-6308-455A-8481-392A43207175/10/568/en/ContentDetails.htm?ID=1DF790F3-EB82-49F8-ABBD-511C7228930A

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Date: 2010-12-24 07:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daemonluna.livejournal.com
*snorfle* Well, erotica is the biggest seller for ebooks.

And BR was in circ when the print Sleeping Beauty books were ordered. My guess is that somebody ordered them who doesn't know a lot about genre, based solely on the fact that they were Anne Rice. (Either that, or the audio books were someone at Chinook Arch...)

Bah, Overdrive's subject headings are a total crap shoot.

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