While attending American Library Association Midwinter Conference in Dallas this weekend, OveDrive will release 2011 year-end stats. Due to the rapid expansion of device compatibility and consumer awareness, eBook discovery and online reader visits at libraries and schools worldwide experienced…

Cindy Orr takes a look at how readers over 55 are jumping into to eBooks in her monthly
blog post.

A Pew Internet poll shows that different generations in the US use the Internet in different ways.…

Cindy Orr, in her monthly blog post, shares thoughts on engaging teens with eReaders.

In a post about a year ago, I suggested that reading devices may be one of the few new technologies that trickle down from…

Yesterday, we released the 2010 stats from libraries and schools in the OverDrive network. When I was gathering the information, one number stood out: eBook checkouts at libraries and schools were up 200% in 2010.  After

If you need any evidence of the popularity of eBooks in the library, all you need to do is look at what happened over the past week. Despite some issues caused by a surge in activity, traffic, checkouts,…

This afternoon, someone, somewhere checked out the 20 millionth digital title from a library in OverDrive’s global network. It was only a year ago that we hit the 10 million all-time checkout milestone, but eBook, audiobook, music…

Today we released the 2009 milestones in library downloading. Wow, what a year. Thank you to all of our library partners for making 2009 a record-breaker for library downloads.

I won’t reprint the entire press release, but here…