The recently released OverDrive/ALA survey of visitors to OverDrive library sites presents some interesting insights into this subset of ebook readers and their behaviors. Before we can talk about any ...

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 ...

That was a question asked of me and fellow staff member Curtis Hartwell recently. Why, you might ask? Well, we had just made a presentation that day at the national conference for OverDrive, our ...

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 ...

OverDrive added more than 2,100 libraries to its global network in the first four months of the year. The gains mark the company's effort to add a wide range of direct-to-consumer services to its ...

“Schools and libraries in all forms are transitioning their spends from providing physical items that are being stored on shelves and branches to digital items -- the fastest portion of their growth,” ...

The next time you are searching Google for a particular e-book, you now have another option instead of buying it from Amazon, Barnes and Noble or Kobo; borrowing it from your local library. Google now ...

As part of OverDrive’s advocacy for flexible and reasonable digital book costs for schools and libraries, OverDrive announced today three new All Access Collections of simultaneous use ebook ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...