Throughout the recent controversy over inappropriate and explicit content being listed in ebook retail websites alongside children's and middle grade titles, the same questions kept coming to the surface: how did this happen, and how do we prevent it? Unfortunately for the authors and publishers of much of the questionable content, the immediate solution was to block nearly all … [Read more...] about OverDrive Offers Digital Kids’ Reading Rooms to Partner Libraries
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OverDrive Launches Streaming Video Service Pilot Program
Overdrive revealed exclusively to Good e-Reader at Book Expo America their new streaming video platform that allows libraries to offer video in addition to eBooks and audiobooks. Today the first phase of their pilot project is finally getting off the ground at the Los Angeles Public Library. The video service ties into libraries existing ILS systems and titles are available … [Read more...] about OverDrive Launches Streaming Video Service Pilot Program
OverDrive: Schools Are Going Digital Faster Than Ever
According to new data from digital content distributor OverDrive, schools are adopting digital books and textbooks at a faster than ever rate. This data, compiled in part from its 6,500 public school library partners, shows that more students than ever before are using smartphones, tablets, and ereaders in the academic environment, with a 252% increase in October in school … [Read more...] about OverDrive: Schools Are Going Digital Faster Than Ever
OverDrive Media Station Now Widely Available
Launched in fifty libraries at the beginning of this year as part of a pilot program, OverDrive's Media Station allows library patrons to employ the in-library ebook, audiobook, music and video sampling and checkout terminal. Today, the world's largest distributor of digital content to academic and public libraries announced the Media Stations are widely available to their … [Read more...] about OverDrive Media Station Now Widely Available
OverDrive Releases Update to School Digital Library Interface
OverDrive, one of the world's largest digital content and media suppliers to academic and public libraries, has rolled out a new update to its web interface that will make searching for content even more streamlined. The first enhancement helps ensure that users who access the interface via computer, tablet, or smartphone will see a very similar storefront, helping make … [Read more...] about OverDrive Releases Update to School Digital Library Interface
Overdrive Attains 9,000 eBooks from Macmillan
Macmillan and Overdrive reached an agreement earlier in the year to experiment with eBooks into the library system. The deal was select titles from their Minotaur imprint and it looks like all sides were happy with the deal. This has prompted Macmillan to contribute close to 9,000 digital titles for entry into the Overdrive system. Most of the eBooks available are … [Read more...] about Overdrive Attains 9,000 eBooks from Macmillan
Overdrive Experiences Tremendous Growth in 2013
Overdrive is primarily responsible for the digital infrastructure for libraries to loan eBooks, audiobooks and videos to their patrons. The company has announced that 2013 has been a year of exponential growth and that they have signed up over 500+ new libraries to join the eBook revolution. Joining the international OverDrive network in 2013 are booksellers in Malaysia, … [Read more...] about Overdrive Experiences Tremendous Growth in 2013
Penguin eBooks Now Available via Overdrive and Axis 360
Penguin eBooks are now available to borrow from libraries in the US via Overdrive and Axis 360. This marks the first time in many years that titles from this publisher are available and has been a long time coming. Overdrive initially had a solid agreement with Penguin, but the publisher suspended digital eBooks a year and a half ago. They decided to go with 3M, who has a … [Read more...] about Penguin eBooks Now Available via Overdrive and Axis 360
OverDrive’s Digital BookMobile on Hand at the National Book Festival
This weekend's National Book Festival, taking place once again in Washington, DC and hosted by the Library of Congress, will once again feature OverDrive's Digital Bookmobile in the company's ongoing effort to put ebooks front and center in readers' lives. While the book event will showcase so much that US publishing has to offer to a global community of readers, OverDrive, one … [Read more...] about OverDrive’s Digital BookMobile on Hand at the National Book Festival
Second OverDrive “Big Library Read” Project Includes School Libraries
Earlier this year, digital content distributor OverDrive partnered with publisher Sourcebooks in an experiment aimed at establishing concrete data on how readers respond in terms of book borrows and book sales to digital titles they check out from their libraries. Sourcebooks made one of its titles available to OverDrive's member libraries for a predetermined period of time … [Read more...] about Second OverDrive “Big Library Read” Project Includes School Libraries