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…
OverDrive’s Holiday Sale lets you give to your community in more ways than one
The holidays are a time of giving and OverDrive’s yearly Holiday Sale is designed to help libraries and schools around the world give readers as many new book options as possible. This year, we’re offering up to 50% off on thousands of ebooks, audiobooks and…
Help motivate #NaNoWriMo writers in your community
National Novel Writing Month (better known as #NaNoWriMo) takes place each November as writers of all skill levels try to complete a draft of a novel in a single month. Hitting 50,000 words in one month is incredibly daunting and participants love motivating each other…
Britannica Digital Learning provides knowledge & nostalgia at your fingertips
On a recent episode of the Professional Book Nerds podcast, author, talk show host and stand-up comedian Guy Branum shared a wonderful story about encyclopedias. In both the interview and his book My Life as a Goddess, Guy discusses how, when he was young, the…
A National Coming Out Day reading list
Each year, the Human Rights Campaign and millions of people around the country celebrate National Coming Out Day and October 11th 2018, is the 30 year anniversary of the holiday. In those three decades, countless individuals have celebrated coming out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,…
THE HORROR: 7 curated collection ideas to scare your readers all month long
(Play this song while reading for maximum enjoyment) The days are getting shorter and the nights are getting longer. There is a chill in the air as we grab our favorite autumnal beverages, scarves and sweaters. It’s time to cozy up by the fire and…