Here’s yet another article with the following quote:
“‘The patron doesn’t have to do anything after the lending period,’ said Steve Potash, chief executive of OverDrive.”
Trouble is, this is not exactly true as demonstrated by the article’s previous paragraph:
“When the audiobook is due, the patron must renew it or find it automatically “returned” in a virtual sense: The file still sits on the patron’s computer, [emphasis mine] but encryption makes it unplayable beyond the borrowing period.”
What the patron has to do is now delete the file off thier computer. Granted, this is not the biggest deal in the world but, let’s be realistic here, most people don’t clean out their hard drives nearly as often as they should. I can envision a regular user of this service filling their drive on their older computer in a matter of months.
I’m not advocating that the file delete itself (o.k. maybe I am,) but the “spokespeople” need to be a little more up front about how their service works, or doesn’t.
