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The Exodus Begins – Kansas Library Consortium Has left OverDrive
OverDrive announced today that their contract to provide ebooks to the Kansas Digital Library Consortium had come to an end so the servers were about to be shut off. The KDLC decided to leave OverDrive...
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OverDrive Caught in a Bait & Switch With Library Ebooks
If you’ve ever looked at your library’s ebook selection and been disappointed, I think I just found out why.Sarah Houghton has just posted a fascinating expose over at Librarian in Black. She’s...
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OverDrive Responds to the Bait & Switch Complaints
Late last week I posted about OverDrive’s latest faux pas, and today they posted a response on their blog.They’d been caught offering different selection to different libraries without actually telling...
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OverDrive is the First to Get Harry Potter eBooks
It might still be impossible to buy a Harry Potter ebook, but today I learned that you will soon be able borrow one from the library.OverDrive announced today that they counted a coup on their...
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Overdrive Buys Booki.sh – Let the Cloud Reading Wars Commence
Now here’s something that wasn’t expected. The digital library services provider Overdrive has just announced the acquisition of Booki.sh, the cloud ebook platform developed by Inventive Labs.Joseph...
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OverDrive to Get Harry Potter eBooks on Thursday
This is just a brief note to let you know that OverDrive sent out an email a few minutes ago to their library partners. All 7 HP ebooks are available for pre-order now, and you’ll be able to check them...
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OverDrive to Launch New HTML5 Based Reading App
Hard on the heels of this morning’s Inkling news comes the announcement of another browser based reading app, only this one is going to be affecting libraries. OverDrive has announced plans to release...
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OverDrive To Launch New In-Library Discovery Terminals
Yesterday OverDrive announced plans for a new cloud reader, the OverDrive Read, which is going to let library patrons read ebooks in the browser. But that’s not the only new trick they have up their...
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OverDrive Continued to Dominate Library eBooks in 2012
Library ebooks are facing some hostility from the major publishers but that doesn’t mean that library patrons are being turned away. Earlier this week OverDrive put out a press release touting the...
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ProQuest Buys EBL & Will Merge it with Ebrary; Ingram Adds Random House...
There’s a library conference coming up later this week so all the vendors have been sharing their big news.Ingram is a well known ebook and book distributor, and today they are trumpeting an addition...
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Hands On With OverDrive Retail eBook Kiosk
Getting ebooks into brick-and-mortar stores is one of the hotly discussed stories at BEA 2013, so I couldn’t leave the show without getting a look at OverDrive’s new retail kiosk. It did not...
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Simon & Schuster Announces New Library eBook Pilot with OverDrive
Simon & Schuster took another tepid step into the library ebook market today with the launch of a new pilot program. This publisher has long been a holdout in the library ebook market, and until...
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Macmillan Now Sells eBooks to Schools in the US, Canada
OverDrive announced on Wednesday that they had worked out a new deal with Macmillan to make that publishers ebooks available to public and private schools in the US and Canada. Macmillan had previously...
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OverDrive Abandons Support for their Blackberry App
Due to declining sales, Blackberry has long since stopped being one of the major tablet and smartphone makers, so today’s news should come as no surprise. The library ebook vendor OverDrive sent out an...
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17,000 Penguin eBooks Now Available to US School Libraries via OverDrive
OverDrive expanded their catalog late last week with titles from Penguin. Teachers and school librarians now have access to 17,000 titles from Penguin – their full catalog of best selling and classic...
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OverDrive Continued to Dominate Library eBooks in 2012
Library ebooks are facing some hostility from the major publishers but that doesn’t mean that library patrons are being turned away. Earlier this week OverDrive put out a press release touting the...
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ProQuest Buys EBL & Will Merge it with Ebrary; Ingram Adds Random House...
There’s a library conference coming up later this week so all the vendors have been sharing their big news. Ingram is a well known ebook and book distributor, and today they are trumpeting an addition...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hands On With OverDrive Retail eBook Kiosk
Getting ebooks into brick-and-mortar stores is one of the hotly discussed stories at BEA 2013, so I couldn’t leave the show without getting a look at OverDrive’s new retail kiosk. It did not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Simon & Schuster Announces New Library eBook Pilot with OverDrive
Simon & Schuster took another tepid step into the library ebook market today with the launch of a new pilot program. This publisher has long been a holdout in the library ebook market, and until...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Macmillan Now Sells eBooks to Schools in the US, Canada
OverDrive announced on Wednesday that they had worked out a new deal with Macmillan to make that publishers ebooks available to public and private schools in the US and Canada. Macmillan had previously...
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