Streamline purchasing: Updates to carts for expiring Metered Access titles
Managing your Metered Access content and keeping up with user demand can be a challenge. We’re committed to simplifying this process, and saving you time and effort on repurchasing expiring Metered Access titles. Earlier this year, we introduced features to assist selectors with shopping and…
Movies you can only stream at your library: Warner Brothers edition!
Recent studies show that two in five American households subscribe to a video streaming service like Netflix. This highlights the steady growth in popularity and high demand of streaming content, where consumers are looking for instant entertainment. With OverDrive’s streaming video collection, the library can…
Get Brian Grazer’s A Curious Mind free from Simon & Schuster!
Simon and Schuster is doing something very curious. For every eBook and print sale of the new release , A Curious Mind, by Brian Grazer from April 7 – April 18, Simon and Schuster will donate one eBook copy of the title to a school…
The OverDrive app now features a dyslexic font option
Last week we released the most recent version of the OverDrive app with a number of enhancements including the option to select a dyslexic font when reading eBooks. Standard typefaces are often difficult to read for people with dyslexia as the letters are hard to…
Librarian’s Share: Providing learning tools for the staff
(Ed. Note: This post was written by Cathy Daane of the Madison Metropolitan School District and discusses how they trained their staff and provide them with easy access to answers about their OverDrive service.) When the Madison Metropolitan School District decided to start an OverDrive…
The top 10 reasons to preorder titles in OverDrive Marketplace
Recently we announced that the ability to preorder titles up to six months in advance in OverDrive Marketplace was now live. This provides your library countless new opportunities to be the first stop for your users when looking for their next great read. Here are…
The SYNC program is back, providing free YA audiobooks all summer long!
The summer SYNC program is back again for 2015, offering two free audiobooks each week all summer long! The program starts May 7th and will offer two Young Adult audiobooks, one classic title and one current title, that users can keep as long as they…
Game of Thrones Read alikes and streaming video picks
Winter is coming…Alright let’s hope winter is actually on its way out. The newest season of Game of Thrones is set to release in April, and I cannot wait. But since wait we must, here are some streaming videos for the lovers of high…
Congratulations Digipalooza Scholarship Winners!
As we get closer to Digipalooza ‘15, our program is falling into place, spaces are quickly filling up and Team OverDrive is busy gearing up for the best conference yet – and we want to see you there! Last month, conference partner Penguin Random House…
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