Libraries

Readers Have Borrowed More Than 1 Billion Books Through OverDrive

20 March, 2018 // 3 Comments

Overdrive just announced on their blog that they have loaned a billion ebooks since they first started lending ebooks in 2003. From OverDrive: One billion. It’s a defining number that’s hard to [Read More ...]

“The Whistler” by John Grisham was the Most Popular Library eBook Last Year

11 January, 2018 // 2 Comments

A couple weeks back Amazon revealed that the most read Kindle ebook this past holiday season was Dan Brown's Origin, and now Overdrive says it was quite the popular library ebook as well. Overdrive [Read More ...]

SFWA Finally Notices Internet Archive’s Decade Old Open Library, Decides It’s Piracy

9 January, 2018 // 21 Comments

I like to stay on top of relevant news and development in the publishing industry, but sometimes I might miss a story and only find out weeks or months later. I used to kick myself for missing stuff, [Read More ...]

Hoopla Adds Marvel Graphic Novels and Comics

9 December, 2017 // 0 Comments

Hoopla offers a subscription service to libraries where a library can pay based on how many titles are used by patrons. It's a "pay-per-use" type of service which includes movies, ebooks, and now [Read More ...]

Google Added Local Library eBook Listings to Search Results

18 September, 2017 // 6 Comments

Google just made it a little bit easier to check ebooks out of your local library. Google announced today that they have integrated public library catalogs into their search results. I can't see the [Read More ...]

San Diego Suburb Votes to Outsource Its Public Library Despite Outcry

29 August, 2017 // 1 Comment

We're all familiar with public libraries outsources certain functions, including their catalog, Wifi network management, ebook platforms, and (sometimes) the acquisition of new materials. But did you [Read More ...]

Texas School District Converts Buses into Rolling Libraries

24 August, 2017 // 2 Comments

The Bexar County, Texas, Bibliotech library system may not have pioneered the idea of an all-digital library but it has become the poster child for the idea. Bibliotech has opened multiple digital [Read More ...]

HarperCollins’ Audiobooks Now Available Though bibliotheca’s cloudLibrary

8 August, 2017 // 1 Comment

Back in June HarperCollins was one of several major publishers that started distributing their ebooks and audobooks to libraries through pay-per-use services like Freading. Now the publisher is [Read More ...]

Jisc Now Offers Digital Textbooks

7 August, 2017 // 2 Comments

Digital library vendor Jisc has found a back door to shove institutional- or site-licensed digital textbooks through. Last week Jisc announced a partnership with Bibliotech, the next doomed digital [Read More ...]

Draft2Digital Now Distributes to Overdrive

1 August, 2017 // 4 Comments

Draft2Digital has just announced that they can now distribute ebooks to OverDrive: We’re pleased to announce that, starting today, Draft2Digital now distributes to OverDrive, enabling our authors [Read More ...]

RBdigital Offers eBooks, Audiobooks, and Magazines in a Single App

5 July, 2017 // 0 Comments

OverDrive's Libby app lets you read ebooks or listen to audiobooks, but the RBDigital app from Recorded Books goes one better. Recorded Books has just announced the release of a new version of the [Read More ...]

The Problem with Hoopla’s Pay-Per-Loan Model

26 June, 2017 // 11 Comments

Publishers like HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster have recently shown increased interest in the pay per loan library ebook services offered by Freading and Hoopla, but at the same time [Read More ...]

HarperCollins Sign Pay-per-Lend Agreements with Freading, Hoopla, OverDrive

25 June, 2017 // 15 Comments

When it comes to library ebooks, the usual way for libraries to acquire them is to pay for licenses for individual copies and then loan the ebooks in what Eric Hellman colorfully named the Pretend [Read More ...]

UK Library Readers to Get Free Access to Harry Potter eBooks

13 June, 2017 // 1 Comment

The twentieth anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is coming up in a few short weeks. The Bookseller reports that Pottermore is marking the occasion by making the ebooks [Read More ...]

20,000 Libraries are Participating in the World’s Largest Book Club

12 June, 2017 // 3 Comments

Big Library Read is a world-wide book club run by OverDrive. The first iteration launched last summer, and the second annual BLR launched today. The first book selected for BLR is The Other [Read More ...]

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