Netlibrary and Overdrive appear to offer excellent subscription services to eAudioBooks. Access can be gained through a library web site, via a patron barcode and PIN. As well as playing the recordings, I think some patrons would be interested in downloading them to their own portable devices.
While World E Book Fair required username and password access (probably based on subscription)to most titles, it had some classic eAudioBooks free to air, from authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain and Edgar Allan Poe. Unlike podcasts, they played almost immediately, were very clear, and didn't break down every few seconds.
In addition, whilst listening to the stories, you could watch some very clever and almost hypnotic, on-screen graphics. If the cost was reasonable, and the demand was there (particularly from older patrons), compared to our hard copy talking books on cassette, CD and MP3, I think our library service would do well to subscribe to these products.
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