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 everlasting importance of Children’s Librarians
Recently, I had the opportunity to surprise my niece by being a “guest speaker” for her class of first graders. First and foremost, seeing her giggling and smiling the entire time was the the absolute best thing. The next best thing though was seeing an…
Save big in the last weeks of our Mags-travaganza
December is a hectic time chock full of travel, shopping, wrapping, family gatherings and, if we’re being honest, eating. This can make it difficult to find time to sit back with a good book be it physical, e or audio. It’s likely your users are…
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…
Monday 5×5 for December 10, 2018
Last week I shared the biggest fiction bestsellers of the last 100 years, today it’s the biggest nonfiction bestsellers Bill Cosby was big in the 1980s. Awkward. Vulture on the plagiarist poet debacle that erupted on Twitter Look. When it comes to art, there is…
Challenge Your Patrons to Read this Holiday Break
By: Annie Suhy, Marketing Specialist Picture this: it’s holiday break and you’re lounging in your sweatpants on the couch. iPad in hand. Browsing social media. Leftover cookies in your belly. The movie A Christmas Story playing in the background on the TV, over and over…
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…
Monday 5×5 for December 3 2018
HELLO DECEMBER! Ohmygosh. There’s only one month left in 2018, can you believe it? Electric Literature asks is Iceland the most literary country in the world? This is a really wonderful introduction to the history of Icelandic literature and the trajectory it has taken to…
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…