5 reasons to add manga and comics to your digital library
By: Mark Malafarina, Integrated Marketing Specialist After earning over $2 Billion in sales in 2021, manga and comic book sales are poised to have a stronger year in 2022. And the readership audience may surprise you. Though children and teenagers are avid readers, they are…
Readers have borrowed over 3 billion digital books through OverDrive
From the very first library checkout of an ebook through OverDrive back in 2003, we have had one vision: to create a world enlightened by reading. Recently, readers and libraries all over the globe achieved a major milestone when the total number of digital titles…
Give your community the best in streaming video with Kanopy
Join us on Wed. Nov. 16 at 2:00 PM ET for a webinar designed to show how libraries serving small communities can bring popular, thoughtful, and engaging entertainment to your patrons’ homes with Kanopy. With the recent trend in households dropping cable and scaling…
Don’t miss our last In The Know of the year!
Join us on Wednesday, Nov. 30 at 2pm EST for a special catalog presentation! A Merry and Bright Book Talk with Sourcebooks is our last In the Know presentation of 2022. Register today so you don’t miss the opportunity to be in the know about…
There’s still time to join us for Big Library Read!
Our global ebook club, Big Library Read (BLR), is happening now and there is still time for your readers to join us! Between now and Nov. 16, readers at participating OverDrive libraries can check out the ebook and audiobook of A Snake Falls to Earth…
November trainings you won’t want to miss
By: Emma Dwyer, Product Trainer Your friends at OverDrive are enjoying the crisp autumn air and the gorgeous changing of the leaves at our Blue Sky Campus location. There’s always something inspirational about this time of year…maybe it’s all those years of back to school…
You Can Join the World’s Largest Digital Book Club with Newbery Honor Award-Winning Young Adult Novel
Nov. 2, 2022 – Booklovers can read Indigenous fantasy “A Snake Falls to Earth” as an ebook or audiobook for free and discuss with global audience
Demand for Digital Books in Academic Libraries Significantly Increases in 2022
Nov. 1, 2022 – OverDrive Academic reports growth in fiction and nonfiction genres across the board; comics and manga drive largest gains
5 ways to support the writers in your community during NaNoWriMo
November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), one of my favorite times of the year. Started in 1999, NaNoWriMo offers a simple but daunting challenge: write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days (I said it was daunting!). I’ve participated in NaNoWriMo several times,…