Overdrive is the leading company responsible for powering the audiobook and e-book collection of your local library. They have reported that in 2016 readers borrowed 196 million digital books, an ...

In 2003, a team of innovative librarians at Cleveland Public Library revolutionized the lending of e-books and audiobooks, marking the 20th anniversary of this groundbreaking achievement. Patricia ...

Last year, I wrote a piece called The Problem With Audiobooks. In that post, I argued that listening to audiobooks is a privilege of the privileged. And I wondered if academic libraries could play a ...

Officials at leading library e-book platform OverDrive said that 2023 was another record-breaking year for digital library circulation, with a 19% increase in library checkouts of digital media over ...

The Nassau Library System announced that the Nassau Digital Doorway digital book consortium reached a record-breaking 1.9 million digital book checkouts in 2022. For the Nassau Library System, this ...

A global pandemic and a national reckoning with race and social justice helped turn 2020 into a record year for digital lending in public libraries, according to OverDrive, the leading digital ...

OverDrive is putting another nail in the coffin of DRM with the announcement that it’ll stop offering audiobooks in the WMA format. Soon OverDrive will only sell audiobooks in DRM-free MP3. The ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The company behind the Libby and Sora apps released its list of the most active libraries when it comes to digital downloads — and both CLEVNET and the Cuyahoga County Public Library ...

OverDrive Inc., the Garfield Heights-based digital reading platform for libraries and schools, is a prominent part of this long New Yorker examination of what the magazine calls "the surprisingly big ...

WESTFIELD — There are more books at the Westfield Athenaeum than any human can see. That’s because some of them are digital files, available from the OverDrive database. E-books and audiobooks have ...