Library eBooks

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 ...]

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 ...]

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 ...]

UK Govt Will Now Pay Authors Each Time Their eBook is Loaned From a Public Library

23 February, 2017 // 6 Comments

It is a common practice in Europe and in many of Great Britain's former colonies for public libraries to pay authors each time one of their books is loaned from a library. That practice is [Read More ...]

Baker & Taylor Launches Library eBook App for Your Web Browser

2 February, 2017 // 1 Comment

Baker & Taylor's Axis 360 platform is one of the lesser known library ebook providers. Launched in 2011, it originally supplied ebooks in Blio format before giving up and offering Epub ebooks [Read More ...]

Kobo Now Beta-Testing Distribution to OverDrive

19 January, 2017 // 5 Comments

When it comes to distributing indie press titles to public libraries, OverDrive is pretty much it for ebooks. OD is the market, and there are only a few ways to get ebooks into OverDrive - [Read More ...]

49 Libraries Each Made More Than 1 Million Digital Loans in 2016

18 January, 2017 // 7 Comments

OverDrive's ebook app may be so painful to use that they built and are beta-testing a new replacement, but that hasn't stopped four dozen libraries from setting new records in lending ebook titles. [Read More ...]

OverDrive Reports Library Borrowing of eBooks Up 16%, Audiobooks Up 34% in 2016

10 January, 2017 // 13 Comments

Stats from the AAP show that some publishers are seeing a decline in ebook sales, but when it comes to usage in libraries the news is very different. OverDrive reports this morning that: readers [Read More ...]

Guest Post: Should Writers be Paid for their eBooks Lent by Libraries?

21 December, 2016 // 5 Comments

Editor's Note: The following post concerns a topic which might be unfamiliar to US readers: Public Lending Rights. This is a program where libraries pay authors and publishers each time one of their [Read More ...]

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