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Supplementing First Year Common Reading Programs with eBooks

April 17th, 2012 No comments

Incoming college freshman are often given their first homework assignment over the summer (gasp!) before the fall semester begins. Taking a page from the City Reads programs, many colleges are selecting a book that all…

Your server or mine? More options for content providers to reach libraries

August 5th, 2010 No comments

With the role of libraries shifting from book and media lending institutions to “access points” for content and information, OverDrive, as a digital distributor, similarly has been broadening its scope in licensing materials from publishers and content…

Beyond US shores: Global reach for EPUB

June 29th, 2010 Comments off

With the International Digital Publishing Forum’s EPUB 2.1 work underway, many more non-US stakeholders are contributing their input to update the EPUB standard to accommodate non-Roman characters (e.g., Japanese, Korean, Hebrew). And on…