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 ...

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 ...

As a school librarian, I am currently being inundated by vendor emails from not only the upcoming ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, California, but also the near-concurrent ISTE (International Society ...

Ever feel like borrowing a book in the middle of the night when ORPL is closed? Bummed that we aren’t open, yet? (Yeah, we miss you, too!) Do you want to travel with books or have access to books when ...

Leading library service provider OverDrive this week reported that a total of 121 public libraries and consortia across seven countries and 37 U.S. states surpassed one million digital lends in 2021.

Overdrive intends on releasing a massive amount of metrics based on all of the schools and libraries that use their service for the facilitation of ebook and audiobook lending. Data from OverDrive’s ...

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, ...

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 is putting another nail in the coffin of DRM with the announcement that it’ll stop offering audiobooks in the WMA format. Soon OverDrive will only sell audiobooks in DRM-free MP3. The ...

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 ...