OverDrive Founder & CEO Steve Potash’s annual message to our library and school partners
[This letter was sent via email on the morning of January 22, 2020] Happy New Year to you, your families, and your teams. As we start the new decade, I feel it is important to write to you and share a few 2019 highlights, what…
A message from Steve Potash on recent publisher lending model changes
Recently, two publishing houses announced changes to their library lending models for ebooks and audiobooks. Decisions surrounding these changes were made by the publishers and materially impact lending models and availability of popular digital content. OverDrive is disappointed with the lending model changes being implemented…
OverDrive Founder Steve Potash honored by U.S. Supreme Court
On March 27 in Washington, D.C., OverDrive Founder and CEO Steve Potash, his wife and co-founder, Loree, and OverDrive’s Executive VP of Publisher Services & General Counsel Erica Lazzaro were sworn in by all nine Supreme Court Justices. They are now admitted to appear and…
We’re celebrating 30 years of digital content with a big Marketplace sale
In 1986, Steve Potash laid the foundation for what would become OverDrive, the world’s leading provider of digital content for libraries and schools. From that moment thirty years ago, when Steve began developing interactive diskette and CD-ROM products and digitizing legal documents through present day…