We need your help deciding the next Big Library Read!
Our latest Big Library Read (BLR) program was another success for our library partners and their patrons. BLR will be back in the fall, and this time we’ll be featuring a kids or teens title! Our global ebook club has reached thousands of readers all…
Celebrate Read an Ebook Day on September 18th and win
September is a big month for readers. It’s Library Card Sign Up Month, features Banned Books Week and several days are dedicated to celebrating literacy. Our favorite among them is, of course, Read an Ebook Day, which takes place on September 18th and is all…
Sora is now available in 10 languages
By: Christina Samek, Outreach Specialist We’re excited to share that Sora is now available in the following additional languages, giving more students the opportunity to fall in love with reading: Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese French German Italian Japanese Russian Spanish Swedish In your browser Students…
Best of the Back to School Sale (Part 1)
By Bailey Hotujac (Account Manager) and Sarah Wilsman (OverDrive Librarian) As you’re setting up for the new school year, don’t neglect your digital library. There’s no processing for new ebooks and audiobooks, so think of that as one less item on your to do list…
How to reach new users in and outside of your library (Part 3: Local media outreach made easy)
Pop quiz! What’s the primary platform U.S. adults use most often to receive the news? If you guessed TV, you guessed correctly as 57% of Americans rely on mostly local TV-news with online, radio, and print newspapers trailing closely behind. As many as 7 in…
Save the date! New digital book club coming October 7-21
The American Library Association and OverDrive have joined forces on a nationwide book club! This brand-new project will run October 7 – 21 and is designed to connect readers through their public library. Similar to OverDrive’s Big Library Read program, this digital book club is…
Monday 5×5 for August 26, 2019
The Independent on the bibliophiles who defy Marie Kondo When two librarians share a house, you run out of room for books very quickly. Ask me how I know. (Before we got married, we joked about registering for more bookcases. I’m somewhat regretting our decision…
Back to school! Where are you going?
By: Lisa Mullins, Product Support Specialist Back to school is one of my favorite seasons. OK, I know it isn’t technically a season, but there are many who would agree with me. Even though I’m no longer in the classroom, there’s just something about this…
OverDrive Summer Read wraps on a record year
By: Christina Samek, Outreach Specialist Back-to-school season is upon us and in full swing here at OverDrive. The Back-to-School Sale is going on now in Marketplace. We’ve updated the Resource Center with materials to help you welcome students and keep Sora in mind all year…
OverDrive’s parent company Rakuten receives the Spartan Spirit Award
By Matt Lindner Building a successful global business requires many of the traits needed to take on a Spartan Race: the grit to focus on long and short-term goals, determination to finish what one starts, and the perseverance to keep a positive mental attitude in…