MORE 'OVERDRIVE' POSTS
OverDrive Rolls Out DRM-free eBook Option to All Library Customers
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Publishing
From an OverDrive Digital Library Blog: For the past few months, OverDrive has been beta testing DRM-free eBook distribution in libraries. Today, we’re excited to announce that all OverDrive-powered libraries can now add DRM-free eBooks to their digital collections. To coincide with the launch of this new functionality, we would also like to welcome new […]
Info Industry Briefs: News from Gale, Springer, OCLC, AAP, OverDrive, Ristech, B&T
| Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Gale, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
Gale Expands Three Acclaimed Digital Collections Springer launches SpringerReference.com Hat Tip/Thanks: Law Librarian Blog and No Shelf Required University of New Brunswick Libraries first in Canada to sign up to use OCLC Web-scale Management Services American Academy of Pediatrics Makes Content From Entire eBook Collection Available to Institutions With New Subscription Model OverDrive Adds Simultaneous […]
OverDrive's Direct Involvement With Today's JK Rowling/Harry Potter News
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Management and Leadership, News, Publishing, Reports, Scholastic
It’s likely that you’ve read, seen and/or discussed today’s JK Rowling/Harry Potter news by this hour. If not, you can take a look here, here (video of announcement and news conference) and here. In a nutshell, Rowling’s new Pottermore web site (launches July 31st) will be home to, “new material about Harry Potter characters, places, […]
Kansas Digital Library Plans to Terminate Contract With OverDrive, Argues Consortium Purchased Material + Primary Document
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Publishing
From a Library Journal Article by Michael Kelly, The state librarian of Kansas, with the backing of state attorney general’s office, is planning to terminate the Kansas Digital Library Consortium’s contract with ebook vendor OverDrive and is asserting the bold argument that the consortium has purchased, not licensed, its ebook content from OverDrive and, therefore, […]
Kudos to the always experimental and forward thinking O’Reilly for going DRM-Free. Will other publishers follow O’Reilly’s lead? From OverDrive: OverDrive is announcing that booksellers, libraries, and schools in its global network will soon have access to DRM-free eBook titles from O’Reilly Media. The publisher’s entire eBook catalog will be available to OverDrive’s channel partners, […]
OverDrive Announces Patron Drive Acquisitions Coming and a Bunch of Other Announcements Lacking Detail
| Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
The platform enhancements named OverDrive WIN***, will be formally announced at ALA in a little over a week. However, no specific dates (or even a range of dates) as to when any of these enhancements will go live is provided. This news release from OverDrive has the complete background and a complete list of initiatives […]
Several New eBook Publishers Now Available to OverDrive School, College, and University Library Customers
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Libraries, News, Publishing, Scholastic
From OverDrive: New eBook publishers supplying to OverDrive-powered school, college, and university libraries include Houghton Mifflin, Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Kaeden Publishing, Barnes Report, and ALA Editions. They join Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., Disney Digital Books, Elsevier Science, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Scholastic, Taylor & Francis, and many others in providing digital books to libraries via OverDrive. Read the […]
"A MAJOR Reason Why Libraries Shouldn’t Rejoice Over the Amazon-OverDrive Deal?"
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Publishing
Library City shares 35 words (one sentence) that were published in today’s Publisher’s Lunch, a well known publishing industry news source. “Privately, some publishers say that the alliance will eventually limit ebook offerings to libraries rather than expand them, as at least some companies fear that unlimited library lending across all major platforms will cannibalize […]
This is an update to an INFOdocket post (from AM on Wed) located here. OverDrive has posted answers to a few questions that are being asked today. They’re answers but OverDrive should be providing more depth to their responses. As you’ll read, “Your users’ confidential information will be protected” is one example. It’s an answer […]
Amazon.com Will Partner With OverDrive and Launch Library Lending Service for Kindle
| Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
UPDATE: Answers From OverDrive to a Few Questions Being Asked Today Full Text of News Release Note: This will be a U.S. only service. Unfortunately, It contains almost zero info about the actual service (how it will work, the type of materials available, additional costs for libraries, end users, etc.) beyond when it will work […]
