Overdrive is currently the largest digital distributor that libraries in Canada, US, UK and Australia employ to fill their catalog with audiobooks, eBooks, music and video. The company has announced a series of new initiatives that will make librarians lives easier in managing their collections and enhancements to the Overdrive Media Console. One of the pitfalls of managing … [Read more...] about Overdrive Announces New Programs to Make eBooks more Accessible
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Overdrive Unveils Pay-Per-Use Lending Model for Warner Brothers Movies
Overdrive unveiled their streaming video service last year and the service allows Canadian and US libraries to offer digital movies to their patrons. The company has just signed a distribution deal with Warner Brothers that will add hundreds of new titles to their catalog, but with a catch. Libraries no longer have to buy the titles in advance. Libraries will be able to … [Read more...] about Overdrive Unveils Pay-Per-Use Lending Model for Warner Brothers Movies
OverDrive Adds Foreign Language Content, More Streaming
OverDrive is the world's largest supplier of digital content to public and school libraries, but that content isn't only ebooks. The company also meets the needs of libraries and their patrons with music, audiobooks, and the ability to stream movies from the library. OverDrive announced a recent addition to that catalog that will increase its already-10,000 strong list of movie … [Read more...] about OverDrive Adds Foreign Language Content, More Streaming
Mosio Adds a Layer of Relevance to Libraries
Libraries are certainly working under difficult constraints while working to remain a relevant source of community support and engagement. The constant slashing of budgets, reductions in staff and hours of operation, and the obstacles libraries have faced in ebook lending have all led to stress levels of many libraries. But a new service from Mosio will add a layer of relevance … [Read more...] about Mosio Adds a Layer of Relevance to Libraries
Hoopla Digital Redesigns the Digital Library Model
Library lending of ebooks and other digital content is finally gaining a foothold in the industry as publishers and lending institutions come to some measure of agreement on how to make it work. While libraries need access to up-to-date but affordable content, and publishers need some guarantee they they will be compensated for allowing their titles into lending catalogs, the … [Read more...] about Hoopla Digital Redesigns the Digital Library Model
Overdrive Inundates Libraries with 200,000 Horrendous Indie eBooks
Smashwords is a self-publishing service that allows authors to submit eBooks and list them for sale on Amazon, Apple, Kobo, Barnes and Noble and other major retailers. Smashwords has managed to convince the largest digital distributor Overdrive, to start offering 200,000 sub-par indie titles to all of their partners. This is a terrible move for the library buying … [Read more...] about Overdrive Inundates Libraries with 200,000 Horrendous Indie eBooks
The eBook Subscription Model is Here to Stay
At an IDPF and BISG panel today as part of its Making Information Pay event, speakers addressed one of the key changes the publishing industry is undergoing: ebook subscriptions. When 24Symbols launched in 2010 as a Netflix-style model for ebook consumption, publishers weren't quick to jump on board, at least not in the US. One reason may have been that the company was simply … [Read more...] about The eBook Subscription Model is Here to Stay
OverDrive to Showcase EPUB3, HTML5 Books at BEA
The International Digital Publishing Forum works at the forefront of digital publishing technology; the stand-alone Digital Book event, hosted in conjunction with BookExpo America, has now grown into a two-day event with a full slate of keynotes and breakout sessions on where technology is headed in the publishing industry. When the IDPF was formed, OverDrive was there to … [Read more...] about OverDrive to Showcase EPUB3, HTML5 Books at BEA
Self-e Plans to Curate Self-Published Titles for Library Inclusion
With exciting new announcements like the one this week from Smashwords, who's now partnered with OverDrive to add an additional 200,000 self-published titles to the 22,000 partner libraries' ebook catalogs, one concern does come up: who will read and approve of all of those titles? While self-published books have always had a bad reputation for low quality, even the fact that … [Read more...] about Self-e Plans to Curate Self-Published Titles for Library Inclusion
PW Launches BookLife Self-Publishing Platform
While the company website is a little stark right now, make no mistake that the people behind Publisher's Weekly are going to unveil something big. Set to launch during this year's BookExpo event, BookLife will not only help authors with the usual suspects like vetted professionals for cover design, editing, and formatting, but will also work to offer promotional tools that … [Read more...] about PW Launches BookLife Self-Publishing Platform