Register today for our webcast to learn how to manage your library’s holds without spending a fortune
By Meghan Volchko, Manager, Public Library Collection Development & Emma Dwyer, Content Specialist As two people who always have lots of titles on hold, and who also work directly with libraries to help them address their patrons’ holds on a daily basis, we’re experts in…
From Asgard to Wakanda: Marvel Comics now available on OverDrive
Librarians assemble! With Avengers: Endgame hitting theaters in a few weeks and Black Panther & Into the Spider-Verse winning big at the Oscars, Marvel has never been hotter and OverDrive is excited to announce Marvel Comics are now in Marketplace! These fantastic comics are available in…
Go hog wild this Chinese New Year
It’s the Year of the Pig and the three little piggies have a webcast featuring Chinese titles you will want to add to your OverDrive collection before the Big Bad Wolf blows your house down (although, hopefully your library is built from bricks and will…
You’ll love shopping our Romance Sale
As many of our partners already know, romance is the most highly circulated genre in libraries, especially in digital formats that allow patrons to indulge their guilty pleasures without anyone else knowing. Romance is also the most cost-effective genre and one of the easiest ways…
10 books to get you through this long, cold winter
With apologies to House Stark, Winter is not coming. Here in the United States, it. Has. Arrived. Much of North America is calling for bone chilling temperatures far into the negatives this week. Therefore, if at all possible, you should avoid leaving the comfort of…
Join OverDrive in the Season of Giving
Throughout the month of December, we’ve been promoting our Holiday Sale in our Marketplace where you can help give your community the gift of reading by saving up to 50% off thousands of ebook, audiobook and streaming video titles. The giving doesn’t just stop with…
Free audiobook offer! Sell It Like Serhant from Rakuten OverDrive
By: Steve Potash, Rakuten OverDrive CEO & President EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS OFFER IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE I worked on a few projects with Ryan Serhant, one of the three stars of Bravo TV’s Emmy award winning…
The best books we read in 2018
Around the OverDrive offices we spend a lot of time talking about books. Our staff librarians are constantly producing exceptional curated lists in Marketplace, our social media channels are teeming with collections for readers to discover, and our Professional Book Nerds podcast dishes out weekly…
How to get something for everybody on your patron holiday shopping list
The holiday season is upon us, and as the end of the year approaches, we’re sure you have a lot on your collective plates; finishing up last-minute projects, finalizing campaigns for 2019, sending reports to various boards of directors and trying to make sure you…
Register today for OverDrive’s Best of 2018 webcast!
Don’t miss your chance to join us for our final special webcast of the year, OverDrive’s Best of 2018! In this 60-minute session, we’ve gift wrapped everything you need to create reading happiness for your users: the best content, our favorite marketing ideas, and the…