See Book, Read Book. For the past several weeks that’s been the mantra at OverDrive. It’s a vision of simplicity—an idea that drove us to develop easier ways to get more readers in front of the books they love to…

Browsers often become customers after flipping through the pages of a title found on a display table or shelf in a brick-and-mortar book store. Now, OverDrive gives you the ability to create that same browser-to-customer transition online with eBook samples.…

The ways of the digital world are changing. By 2014, mobile Internet is predicted to take over desktop Internet usage. Currently, about one quarter of mobile phones are smartphones. As smartphones become more accessible and affordable,…

OverDrive supplies eBooks to dozens of major booksellers around the world. As our partnerships expand and more customers purchase digital books online, helping our retail partners determine which eBook readers work best with OverDrive-supplied content will be an important part…

“For the purpose of publishing, the cell phone is a more powerful medium than paper, e-readers, magazines and even the Internet.” – Liu Chengyong of China Publishing Group, from Publishing Perspectives

It’s true: cell phones are arguably the most prominent…

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…