Week 9 #22

Downloadable media.

We've all downloaded media before. From downloading music, files, videos to downloading webpages.

Some sites you visit are free some other sites ask you to pay for content. Most music sites ask you to buy music for a flat fee. 99 cents or $1.29 depending on the bit rate.

But what if all the music was free. What if books where like that also. Instead of buying books you could download them and read them on your e-book or listen to them on a cd/thumb drive/computer.

You can grab a MP3 player like an Ipod or creative Zen/Zune and take it with you on the go. It works great with long travel and working out.

Looking at the different sites that allow free downloadable books compared to us. As their website functions different from us but have the same concept. Some of the differences of course are the way the layout and search function. But other difference have to do with the checkout time and the media.

I do like our Overdrive system but that's because I'm more familiar with it. I will be trying out the other two sites more and see which one I prefer.