Users will be able to stream content to OverDrive apps for various devices. Direct download will continue to be available. From Today’s Announcement: Scheduled for launch later this year, streaming audiobooks will be available on a wide range of Internet-connected devices, including smartphones, tablets and computers. This instant-access technology will eliminate long downloads before listening […]
Listen Now: OverDrive Announces Plans to Launch Streaming Audiobooks Later this Year
Filed by on June 13, 2012
Audiobooks: Two Reasons to Congratulate Hugh McGuire and the LibriVox Team
Filed by on April 6, 2012
What are those two reasons? Direct to LibriVox web site. 1. LibriVox reports that over 100,000,000 public domain audiobooks have been downloaded (free) from their digital collection on the Internet Archive site. “The LibriVox collection is one of the most popular on the Internet Archive,” said Brewster Kahle, Founder and Director of the Internet Archive. […]
Minneapolis/St.Paul: Metro Libraries, Patrons Unload on Audiobooks Full of Glitches
Filed by on January 30, 2012
From the Minneapolis Star Tribune: More than 100 metro-area libraries serving about 2 million users depend on one provider of digital audiobooks, but there’s a problem: The company’s technology is so plagued with glitches that one county library system temporarily suspended the service and another will be launching a separate service in February. “We hate, […]
OverDrive Tells Library Customers that Sales of Penguin Audiobooks Have Been Suspended
Filed by on January 18, 2012
From a PaidContent Article by Laura Hazard Owen: Hoping to skirt Penguin’s library e-book restrictions by checking out a hot new title as a digital audiobook instead? Sorry, that strategy will no longer work as Penguin changed its library policies again today Digital Shift has the message that OverDrive, which distributes e-books to libraries, sent […]
Brilliance Audio is Suspending Availability of Download Audiobook Titles for Library Purchase
Filed by on January 4, 2012
Always talk about ebooks being pulled or possibly being pulled for library access. Today, word that one audiobook publisher is suspending the sale of (as of January 31, 2011) audiobooks for library lending via OverDrive and other vendors. OverDrive partners were informed of this change in a collection development update email. Here’s the exact wording […]
