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Kicking Off Summer with New MP3 Releases On Sale

May 19th, 2013 No comments

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%…

Top Five Titles That Take You to Ireland

May 17th, 2013 No comments

 

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…

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

May 16th, 2013 No comments

                    

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,…

Publisher Spotlight: Library-Loved eBooks from Macmillan

May 14th, 2013 No comments

               

 

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…

Potential Biggest Book of the Year Coming Tomorrow

May 13th, 2013 No comments

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,…

Celebrating Literary Heroines for Mother’s Day

May 10th, 2013 No comments

               

 

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…

Using OverDrive’s new school metadata

May 9th, 2013 8 comments

What is metadata?  I can’t speak for librarians and other education professionals, but as a former elementary school teacher I had never heard of the term metadata before joining OverDrive. Metadata is simply data about other data. The…

Hachette eBooks are here!

May 7th, 2013 4 comments

Just last week we announced that Hachette Book Group, one of the world’s leading publishers, has agreed to make its entire digital catalog of eBooks available to libraries and schools in the U.S. and Canada. Please reference our

Podcast: New and Featured Content for May

May 6th, 2013 No comments

Spring is officially here, and with it comes a crop of new content for your library. Our May collection highlights podcast clues you in to new, featured, and soon-to-be-added publishers in Content Reserve to help…

Collection Development Focus: Award-Winning Young British Authors

May 3rd, 2013 No comments

          

 

Looking for new titles to add to your digital collection? British literary magazine Granta recently announced their choice for the 20 most promising British writers under the age of 40. This…