New Metered Access Manager now available in OverDrive Marketplace!
Available now in OverDrive Marketplace is the new Metered Access (MA) Manager! Designed to make managing your metered access content easier and more efficient, Metered Access Manager allows you to create customized plans based on specific criteria like: Format Price Time Checkouts Remaining Audience …
How to find audiobooks for $30 or less
Audiobooks are an important way to draw in your reluctant readers and get them excited about reading. Often, hearing words spoken aloud can help unlock new levels of comprehension that these students aren’t always able to achieve reading conventional texts. Because they’re so integral to…
Cheers to the 6 best Sora product updates of 2023!
It’s been another exciting year of Sora and OverDrive Marketplace enhancements. In 2023, we thoughtfully updated or introduced new features focused on personalizing the student reading experience, engaging more readers with your digital collection, and ensuring educators have access to the data necessary to make…
4 Percy Jackson read-alikes for aspiring Olympians
Nearly 20 years after the debut of The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson & the Olympians saga remains one of the best-selling children’s book series in the world. Now, with a highly anticipated new television adaptation dropping on Disney+ at the end of December,…
“Grow a love of reading”: How a TN librarian teaches lifelong learning & reading skills with digital [Sora Spotlight]
By: Kristen Hein, Account Manager Each Sora Spotlight profile showcases educators who’ve become Sora champions at their school, impressing us with their innovative strategies to implement the platform and engage students. We’ve asked them to share their stories so that we can all be inspired…
Celebrate holidays around the world in our upcoming webinar!
By Gryphon Beyerle, Publisher Account Services The daylight dims, the windchill rises. You can finally wear that sweater again—it looks so great on you. Maybe someone will buy you that coffee carafe that you don’t need but it sure would be nice to have. These…
1 WEEK ONLY: Get 50% off “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” ebooks!
If your kids can’t get enough of the middle school mishaps of Greg Heffley, then we’ve got a sale you definitely won’t want to miss. From now until Dec. 3, you can enjoy 50% off One Copy/One User editions of Books #1-17 of Jeff Kinney’s…
Free December marketing kits that will make your patrons cheer at the end of the year
Personally, I’m a little bit in denial about December being less than a week away. With family vacation and holidays happening over the next few weeks, there’s not a lot of time to get things done. The bonus of this, though, is that I’ll have…
Wrap up 2023 with great titles (and great savings!)
The countdown to the end of the year is on! Our End of Year Sale is the perfect time to wrap up 2023 with new savings and new content to engage and entertain your community in 2024 and beyond. Join us on Dec. 6 at…
Sora in the Classroom: English Language Arts
By: Angela DiBenedetto, Product Support Specialist In this recurring Sora in the Classroom series, we discuss lesson ideas that utilize Sora to support your state and district technology and curriculum requirements in all subject areas. In Part One of this series, we will focus on…