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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,…
It’s been a few months since we’ve published a Most Downloaded blog, and I’m happy to report that things look familiar as autumn (or Spring, depending on your geography) approaches. You’ll still find plenty of spice, from “Fifty Shades”…
The Library of Congress hosted its 12th annual National Book Festival on the National Mall in Washington D.C., over the weekend. Team OverDrive and the Digital Bookmobile were there in full effect, showcasing libraries and eBooks to…
If you’ve been following my Most Downloaded blogs in recent months, you’re probably tired of hearing about Harry Potter, Hunger Games, and Fifty Shades. So even though the beloved wizard continues to cast a…
For this month’s Retro Read, Jason Sockel pays poetic tribute to the Dr. Seuss collection “The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories.” -Ed.
What a stroke of good luck!
Like the rare finding by a duck named McCluck,
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OverDrive’s Advantage program gives libraries that are members of a shared collection the ability to offer popular titles exclusively to their patrons. Advantage libraries can use the program to help fill holds on high circulating titles already in the…
Mother’s Day is May 13, and this year, we Sockel brothers want to salute our mother as best we know how—by writing a blog in her honor! This is also a very exciting time for Team OverDrive, as many a…
As predicted by this guy last month, PotterMORE is right! Harry Potter titles accounted for a startling 64 percent of the top Juvenile Fiction eBook and Audiobook titles downloaded in April, occupying 51 of 80 possible…
Nothing defines “retro” like the “When I was a kid…” thought process. That, in conjunction with the beginning of the Major League Baseball season, is why I’ve chosen Matt Christopher’s The Kid Who Only Hit Homers as this…
An eBook and an audiobook walk into a digital library. The video ducks.
Heyo!
While all of OverDrive’s library partners are seeing tremendous success circulating eBooks and audiobooks to patrons, few are taking advantage of another popular format—video. OverDrive…
