Monday 5×5 for June 10, 2019
Vulture asks what makes a book a ‘beach read’ I’m one of those people who is of the opinion that anything you read on a beach counts as a beach read, but I’m also one of those people who, in the past, has volunteered to…
Students Beat the Heat – and “Summer Slide” – with School-Approved Popular Ebooks
June 7, 2019 – Thousands of North American schools participating in OverDrive Summer Read program
Save on audiobooks during June and celebrate Audiobook Month all year long
Listen up! June is here, which means it’s time to start celebrating Audiobook Month. From being your best workout partner to being a great way of keeping kids and teens reading all summer long, there’s a reason that audiobooks are the fastest-growing reading format. From…
Heat up your summer reading promotion with our new marketing kit
QUICK! What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think about summer reading? Thinking…. thinking…. Did you think of lounging by the pool with a steamy read? Maybe you thought about the “summer slide” which sounds like it could be a lot of…
OverDrive’s favorite audiobooks
When I say we here at the OverDrive offices love audiobooks, what I mean is if you ever walk around our Blue Sky Campus and see employees sitting in their cubes with earbuds in, there’s a very good chance they are listening to an audiobook….
5 tips to make the most of Audiobook Month in June
By: Bailey Hotujac, Account Manager Here at OverDrive, we’re big fans of reading in all forms. Humans were sharing stories orally long before a written language was developed, so it’s no accident that audiobooks have exploded over the last few years. In the words of…
Booklist Summer Sizzlers
OverDrive Education and Booklist conducted a webinar in May featuring the hottest titles you didn’t know you needed. Our in-house librarian experts and Content Specialists Kristin Milks, Natalie Mainland, and Rebecca Dluback discussed the best in professional development, personal growth, audiobooks and fun summer reads….
Monday 5×5 for June 3, 2019
Over on Esquire, the secret oral history of Bennington College Ah, Bennington. An exclusive liberal arts college in Vermont, Bennington lays claim to significant literary graduates including Bret Easton Ellis and Donna Tartt, both of whom fictionalized the college in various works. (Tartt, notably, in…
How OverDrive libraries are leveraging the rise in audiobook popularity
June might be Audiobook Month, but as many of our partners know, audiobooks are popular all year long. In fact, they are the fastest-growing reading format and in 2018, audiobook checkouts from the OverDrive public library network surpassed ebook checkouts for the fifth year in…
Student Pride Guide 2019
Growing up is hard enough. Growing up in a marginalized group can be even more diminishing and scary. As adults, we should be asking, “What can we do to help kids navigate this challenging time on the way to adulthood?” According to a 2017 teen…