Digipalooza ‘15 is almost here!
On Wednesday August 5th, hundreds of librarians and publishers will join Team OverDrive in Cleveland, Ohio for Digipalooza, the 5th international user group conference. Librarians, staff and media specialists from public libraries and schools around the world will participate in informative and interactive sessions covering…
A message to our library and school partners from Steve Potash
[this letter was sent via email on the morning of March 19, 2015] Dear OverDrive Library & School Partners, OverDrive announced today that Rakuten, Inc. has agreed to acquire OverDrive from Insight Venture Partners, our private equity partner and majority owner since 2010. In a…
FREE Webinar – OverDrive Periodicals: Lend popular digital magazines & newspapers
If I don’t have a lot of time to dive into the book I’m currently reading I turn to the latest copy of my favorite magazine. I also like to keep up with what’s going on around the world by reading the newspaper each morning….
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…
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…
Happy Galentine’s Day! Books for you and your gals.
Rest assured, you don’t have to be a fan of the show Parks and Recreation to celebrate Galentine’s Day. According to Leslie Knope (Actress and comedienne Amy Poehler’s character on the show), February 13th is a day for women to leave their male significant others…
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,…
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…
See innovations from OverDrive at ALA Midwinter 2015
Are you going to ALA Midwinter in Chicago this weekend? If so, stop by booth #2623 to see full-scale demonstrations of cutting-edge technology, including: Narrated eBooks: Synced audio-to-text now live with more than 800 titles available to libraries and schools EPUB3 fixed-layout eBooks: OverDrive Read’s…
Join the first ever #ODchat – Jan. 28th
On Wednesday, Jan. 28th at 8 p.m. (EST), OverDrive will host the first ever #ODchat on Twitter for our partners and users. To join the chat, simply log onto Twitter and follow the conversation using the hashtag #ODchat. This monthly event is designed to enable…
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