Did you know that audiobook usage is continuously growing and that the average audiobook user listens to five audiobooks each year? This means there’s never been a better time to start offering them to your users. Audiobooks keep readers connected to the stories and authors…
By Rachel Kray, a Librarian and Collection Development Analyst with OverDrive 2015 was a great year for books and eBooks and it’s hard to believe we’re nearing the end. To commemorate some of the great reads, we polled our staff here at OverDrive and asked…
By Adam Sockel, OverDrive’s Social Media Specialist. As you may have heard we’re currently running our Holiday Spectacular Sale where you can save up to 50% on thousands of titles until the end of the year. Not only can you get great deals on best…
By Adam Sockel, OverDrive’s Social Media Specialist The holidays are a busy time. We appreciate that you are likely running multiple seasonal campaigns and events while also dealing with staff taking time off. To top everything off, each holiday season leads to an influx of…
Each year websites like to release their “best books of the year” lists in December. We’ve even shared our favorite ones right here. Now we want you, the readers, to decide the absolute best book of the 2015. We’ve rounded up the 32 most checked…
By Kristin Milks, Librarian and OveDrive Collection Development Analyst At Digipalooza back in August, Holly Varley, the Materials Selection and Acquisition Manager from The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, talked about her library’s use of what she has dubbed “Zombie Penguins”. When we…
The months of December and January are some of the busiest of the year as patrons and students get new devices for the winter holidays, eager to borrow eBooks and audiobooks from the library. Want to know more about how you and your staff can…
The curated collections, Holiday Reads for Adults and Holiday Reads for Kids & Teens, are ready for you to Publish in the curation interface in OverDrive Marketplace! Boost circulation and reader engagement by publishing the collection to your site today. Publish your curated collection In…
By Emma Kanagaki, librarian and OverDrive Collection Development Analyst The Collection Development Analysts are excited to announce that our eHighlights catalog has gotten a bit of a makeover. For eHighlights, our aim is to provide a visually appealing, curated selection of content each and every…
From now until December 31st you can save 25-50% off thousands of titles in OverDrive Marketplace from hundreds of publishers. These savings are available on eBooks, audiobooks as well as huge savings on our streaming video content. Now is the perfect time to offer your…
You are invited to participate in OverDrive’s next Readers’ Advisory project, which highlights our favorite selection of holiday reads. This time there will be two collections – one highlighting adult titles, and another showcasing kids and teen content. The project offers hand-picked titles to help…
OverDrive is excited to announce a pilot of a new library lending model from Simon & Schuster. Starting today, over 550 Simon & Schuster titles are available for a two-year lending term, in addition to the present one year lending term. For new purchases, libraries will now…