Bibliotheca Now also offers RBDigital Titles

Last week, Bibliotheca issued a press release touting their offerings of RBDigital content.

“We are very excited to be able to offer this exciting new content in cloudLibrary. The new collection includes over 10,000 Recorded Books and W.F. Howes titles as well as more than 1,300 Graphic Audio titles that have never before been available outside of Graphic Audio’s own website and app. These additions will be added to our existing catalogs of HighBridge, Tantor, and Gildan that we’ve sold for some time. All titles are compatible with SimplyE and offer libraries an excellent opportunity to refresh their collection during this time when so many are depending on digital media,” says Tom Mercer, Senior Vice President of Digital Products, bibliotheca.

The statements adds “RBmedia’s Recorded Books, Graphic Audio, and W.F. Howes content collections will be available for purchase under the one book/one user model within cloudLibrary by mid-July. Once titles are older than one year, they will automatically be available through the pay-per-use model.”

RF thanks Mr. Mercer for mention of the SimplyE app. SimplyE could already handle RBDigital content, and It is good to know that the titles will remain accessible on the “one app to rule them all” platform if licensed through Bibliotheca.

It would seem that KKR is equal opportunity when it comes to RBDigital content, with KKR-owned OverDrive having previously announced RBDigital content availability. RF is glad of it and hopes that KKR might offer the content through any library vendor that would like it, including the DPLA Exchange. Would it be too much to hope that the content might be available direct to SimplyE deploying libraries, which would not need a vendor app (and price cut) to deploy it? We could find a way to house it. Perhaps so. But, in the words of the old song, “Wouldn’t it be nice . . . “