I was recently listening to public radio show Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! while waiting for my bus when author Elizabeth Gilbert of Eat, Pray, Love fame came on as a guest. I became intrigued enough to ...
Another year, another record increase for OverDrive's circulation. In a release today, the digital library market leader announced that its customers worldwide borrowed some 555 million e-books, ...
OverDrive Media Console—the iPhone app that lets users check out and read e-books from their local libraries—has been upgraded to a universal app optimized for iPad use. The version 2.2 update from ...
OverDrive Inc., the Garfield Heights-based digital reading platform for libraries and schools, is a prominent part of this long New Yorker examination of what the magazine calls "the surprisingly big ...
An inflection point came in 2002, when Potash said OverDrive was not in its strongest position as a business. This was after dot com crash, and e-book was almost a dirty word, Potash said. But ...
OverDrive, the service you can use to borrow ebooks, audiobooks and other digital media from your local library, school or university, is shutting down. In a blog post spotted by TechCrunch, OverDrive ...
I once loved dropping into my local public library and reemerging hours later, weighed down with hardcovers, paperbacks, CDs, and DVDs. Needless to say, I no longer do this. The COVID-19 pandemic has ...
Many people who want to buy an e-reader want to borrow ebooks from the public library instead of buying them. There are only a handful of devices out there that let you borrow and read, right on the ...
Libraries have seen digital material circulation explode since the pandemic, but the cost of e-books is much higher for institutional use than it is for individuals. One company, Garfield ...
For someone like me who has never read an e-book, it is big news that the Nashville Public Library reached a record-breaking 1 million digital checkouts in 2018 through its OverDrive app, making it ...
The e-book revolution had already transformed the concept of “going to the library,” even before the pandemic confined large swaths of the population to their homes and shuttered many public libraries ...
A global pandemic and a national reckoning with race and social justice helped turn 2020 into a record year for digital lending in public libraries, according to OverDrive, the leading digital ...