Congratulations to the Digital Dash winners!
By: Melissa Marin, OverDrive Marketing Specialist The Digital Dash challenge wrapped up 2017 helping our partners across the world set record numbers in eBook and digital audiobook checkouts. We are proud to announce 18 lucky winners randomly chosen from libraries that hit or exceeded their…
Public libraries reach 225 million digital checkouts in record-breaking 2017
2017 was another landmark year in digital reading, as our 40,000 library and school partners circulated a quarter-of-a -billion eBooks and audiobooks through their OverDrive-powered collections. The more than 225 million borrowed titles represent a 14% growth in checkouts from 2016, which was also a…
Add Fire and Fury to your digital collection and bypass the backorders
Fire and Fury, the instant #1 bestseller by Michael Wolff about the current White House administration, is having quite a moment in the zeitgeist. After selling out its first printing of 150,000 copies, readers around the world are struggling to find copies of the enormously…
Public libraries lend record numbers of eBooks and audiobooks in 2017
Jan. 11, 2018 – Global shift to digital reading led by downloadable audiobooks and smartphones
Meet the K-12 Newsletter team
When the school year kicked off in fall 2016, so did the K-12 Newsletter from OverDrive Education. Every month, we take to the whiteboard in the Shakespeare conference room to carefully choose themes, brainstorm collection lists and discuss the most pressing topics of the moment…
Literary holidays to celebrate all year long (and the books to read during them)
Each year, our calendars are loaded with days earmarked for celebrating birthdays, national holidays, and anniversaries. These are all wonderful, of course, but we prefer our holidays to have a bit of a literary twist. There are countless literary holidays you can choose to celebrate…
OverDrive steps it up
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Best website of 2017 and probably 2018
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School librarian leaders at AASL champion digital reading
PHOENIX—NOV. 9, 2017—eBooks and audiobooks support literacy goals and encourage reading in more than 18,000 schools and districts across the U.S. With the OverDrive Education reading platform, school librarians are leveraging the power of digital to bring eBooks and audiobooks to more than 7 million…
National Library Board of Singapore Launches Digital Business Library
SINGAPORE – October 23, 2017 – Companies, from startups to multinational conglomerates, will be able to get access to top business resources in a new Digital Business Library. The new resource is a one-stop portal launched by the National Library Board of Singapore (NLB), in conjunction with OverDrive,…