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24/7 eBooks: Your Digital Library is Never Closed

June 18th, 2013 1 comment

 

Library buildings, whether public, school or college, cannot be open all the time—even librarians have to sleep! Whether it’s outside of regular business hours, closed for holidays, bad weather or construction, there are times the doors…

The Next Generation Platform Rollout Review

Just in time for summer, the rollout of OverDrive’s Next Generation Digital Library Platform is nearly complete. The goal of the Next Generation Platform was to improve and streamline user experience, and the accompanying enhancements, including One-Step Checkout™, browser-based reading…

Top Five Funny Father’s Day eBooks & Audiobooks

June 11th, 2013 No comments

Father’s Day is coming, so don’t forget to send your dad a card! It’s also a good time to add a few funny dad-friendly titles to your digital collection. Here are some of my recommendations:

 

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Page to Screen: eBooks on the Big Screen

June 3rd, 2013 2 comments

From Shakespeare to Stephen King, the box office this year is jam-packed with literary tales hitting the big screen. Encourage readers to get the whole story by adding these eBooks and audiobooks to your collection to tie in with movie…

The Ultimate Teen Summer Reading List

May 21st, 2013 No comments


Here at OverDrive, one of the most common requests we get is for recommendations of young adult titles that can attract the interests of today’s savvy, gadget-equipped, imaginative youths. Although we can suggest titles that are circulating well, it…

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,…

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…

Learn How to Use the New Content Reserve in Less than 5 Minutes

May 2nd, 2013 No comments

 

I get shopping anxiety very easily. If I’m in a store, any store, for more than 15 or 20 minutes, I get antsy and have to get going. Coupled with my inability to make quick decisions when faced…