Get 100 free Chinese eBooks for your digital collection!
To celebrate the Chinese New Year we are excited to offer any library or school 100 free Chinese eBooks when they add the Chinese User Interface to their digital library website from now until March 31st. OverDrive offers more than a dozen language options, including both traditional and…
Highlight your streaming video collection with the new OverDrive Screening Room!
Last year OverDrive provided library partners the opportunity to highlight children and young adult content by offering an eReading Room for kids and teens. The purpose was to provide a solution that would feature popular Juvenile/YA content for kids in a safe, digital environment, while allowing parents…
Why Digipalooza is a can’t miss conference (from those who have attended!)
Have you registered yet for Digipalooza? Space is filling up quickly so make sure to register soon. Did you know that 98% of Digipalooza ‘13 attendees agreed that they would consider attending Digipalooza again and would also recommend the conference to a friend or colleague?…
Join our #ODchat about kid lit on Feb 26th!
Last month we hosted our first ever #ODchat on Twitter. The goal was to create a monthly conversation centered around reading and technology and we had a blast! As you may know, March 2nd is Read Across America Day where schools and libraries will celebrate Dr….
A look back at a record breaking year in digital reading (Infographic)
2014 was another record year for libraries and digital reading! Around the world users borrowed more than 136 million digital titles from OverDrive powered library and school websites. This included more than 15 million browser-based titles borrowed using OverDrive read and over 32 million audiobooks! To…
Big Library Read is back!
We’re excited to announce the return of the Big Library Read, our global digital book club where millions of people from around the world have the ability to read the same eBook at the same time. This time around, OverDrive users will be able to…
Coming soon for U.S. and Canadian libraries: Disney streaming video!
We are excited to announce an agreement with The Walt Disney Studios to offer more than 100 streaming video titles to public library partners in the U.S. and Canada. This licensing agreement strengthens a robust catalog of thousands of streaming video titles available through OverDrive,…
Stop the presses! OverDrive now offers popular magazines and newspapers
We are excited to announce that we, along with Barnes & Noble NOOK®, now offer more than 1,000 popular magazines and newspapers for digital lending through our library partners in the U.S. The collection includes the best coverage of the top 200 circulating U.S. magazines…
Fall in love with February’s romance sale
Just in time for the month of love, OverDrive is offering 30-50% off over 2,000 titles from our Romance collection. The sale, on now, continues through February 28, 2015. There is a romance novel out there for every kind of reader! From plain and simple…
5 Takeaways from ALA Midwinter
Every time I travel to a conference for OverDrive, I am blown away by the passion that the library community exudes. Being a librarian is more than just a job; it’s being passionate about users, their needs and making sure everyone has the ability to…
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