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[0] Shared Collection of Downloadable Audiobooks [1] Talking Book and Braille Services [3] In late 2005, Talking Book and Braille Services began to offer downloads of audiobooks to our users through a collaborative arrangement with libraries for the blind in Illinois, Colorado, New Hampshire, and Delaware. The five libraries came together to purchase the collection and to make all the books available on one website. The vendor agreed to waive all start-up costs and ongoing website maintenance costs for the experimental project. Currently about 200 TBABS users are downloading audiobooks from the new service. [4] In the current fiscal year, our cost to participate in the five-state shared downloadable audiobook collection was $8,600. Were we to attempt to replicate the same service on our own, the estimated cost would have been approximately $70,000. [2] 
Users of downloadable audiobooks from Talking Book and Braille Services.
EFFICIENCIES AT THE OREGON STATE LIBRARY: 2006
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