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Kicking Off Summer with New MP3 Releases On Sale

Deal watchers, coupon clippers, and savings sleuths, listen up! HarperAudio is offering a deal that cannot be ignored. For the next two weeks, over 100 of their brand new May and June MP3 releases are on sale for a whopping 30%… Read more

Top Five Titles That Take You to Ireland

 

Are you an armchair traveler? While I do enjoy traveling to a new city or exploring a new place, I cannot always find the time or the budget to fulfill my every whim. Instead of feeling gloomy, I… Read more

Don’t Bury the ‘Hachette’: Check Out these Newly Added eBooks!

                    

You probably know that on May 8th, thousands of popular front-list eBook titles from Hachette Book Group were added to Content Reserve.  Featured Hachette authors include David Sedaris,… Read more

Librarians Share: How Fort Smith School District is Achieving Early Success

Fort Smith School District (AR) launched their digital collection a few short months ago and they are already seeing widespread adaptation from their student body. This great success comes from early marketing and keeping their students, staff and… Read more

Big Library Read is Here!

Today is the rollout of the Big Library Read pilot. This pilot program allows millions of patrons from more than 7,500 participating libraries to simultaneously read Michael Malone’s critically-acclaimed ‘Four Corners of the Sky’ in OverDrive Read,… Read more

BlackBerry Z10 Review

BlackBerry was once king of the smartphone world.  For 4 years, it reigned supreme, until their world was eclipsed by the rise of Apple’s iPhone and Google’s subsequent introduction of Android. Since then, the company has spent time trying to… Read more

Publisher Spotlight: Library-Loved eBooks from Macmillan

               

 

When Macmillan launched their eBook collection with us in March, we heard cheers from our U.S. library partners that love the high circulating edge of your seat thrillers, crime… Read more

U.S. Navy joins Big Library Read

On Wednesday, May 15th,  public library users around the world will begin simultaneously checking out ‘Four Corners of the Sky’ thanks to the pilot program of Big Library Read. Among those enjoying the story about a naval pilot… Read more

Potential Biggest Book of the Year Coming Tomorrow

Don’t miss Dan Brown’s Inferno, available to purchase in eBook and audiobook formats on Tuesday, May 14th in the Content Reserve Marketplace. Inferno is a sequel to Brown’s blockbuster earlier titles featuring symbologist Robert Langdon. They are, in order,… Read more

Celebrating Literary Heroines for Mother’s Day

               

 

Who are your favorite literary heroines?  We posed this same question earlier this week on Facebook and Twitter and got some great responses. From classic characters like… Read more