OverDrive shares significant growth in usage at London Book Fair
By: Rickie Mascia, OverDrive Social Media Specialist. At the London Book Fair, March 14-16, OverDrive’s global expansion is providing one of the hottest opportunities in the publishing industry. With new library partners launching in Europe, Asia and Latin America, digital book sales will continue to…
Readers Around the Globe Join Largest Digital Book Club to Devour “Art of the Pie”
Mar. 15, 2017 – One of the best cookbooks of 2016 selected for Big Library Read, the global book club through libraries
4 easy ways to use OverDrive Help
By: Adam Sockel, Marketing & Communications Specialist and co-host of the Professional Book Nerds podcast. OverDrive Help is a wonderful resource for library users who are looking for FAQs, getting started guides or simply want to learn something new about your digital library services. Readers can…
Celebrate Pi Day by preparing for the Big Library Read
March 14 is known around the world as Pi Day. This is a holiday dedicated to celebrating Pi, a number used in mathematics to represent the ratio of a circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi is famous for having been calculated to…
OverDrive’s Institutional Buyers Drive Strong eBook Growth for 2016
Mar. 13, 2017 – Led by North America, library and school partners reach millions of new readers and drive sales
Ghost in the Shell Manga, the revolutionary series, now available on OverDrive
We’re excited to announce that the Ghost in the Shell, the award winning and revolutionary manga titles by Shirow Masamune, is now available in OverDrive Marketplace. A movie staring Scarlett Johansson is scheduled to be released in theaters at the end of March, making this the perfect…
Train your library staff with OverDrive’s training webcast
By: Briana Johnson-Sims, OverDrive Training Specialist One of the key steps to promoting your OverDrive Digital Library is to make sure your staff is knowledgeable about OverDrive products and services. So grab your team and get registered for our monthly training sessions on Marketplace Basics…
OverDrive eHighlights: Don’t Get Caught Without the Newest Titles
By: Annie Suhy, Librarian and OverDrive Collection Development Analyst. Imagine this scenario. A patron asks if you have the newest title by Jojo Moyes or James Patterson or Roxane Gay or Neil Gaiman. They follow the author on Twitter and have known about the book’s…
OverDrive Education Recommends the Best Minecraft, LEGO, Coding and Maker eBooks for Teen Tech Week
Mar. 2, 2017 – Spend Teen Tech Week making positive change with digital books
Your OverDrive Resource Center
By: Christina Samek, OverDrive Marketing Specialist Yes, yours. OverDrive’s Resource Center was created with our partners in mind. We wanted it to be your one-stop-shop for all things OverDrive: the best of our marketing, collection development, training and product resources. We are coming up on…
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