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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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,” ...
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 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 ...