Readers can save some serious money on ebooks by borrowing them from the public library. The vast majority of branches and controsiums use Overdrive to power their digital collection and the Kobo ...

The e-book revolution had already transformed the concept of “going to the library,” even before the pandemic confined large swaths of the population to their homes and shuttered many public libraries ...

I was recently listening to public radio show Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! while waiting for my bus when author Elizabeth Gilbert of Eat, Pray, Love fame came on as a guest. I became intrigued enough to ...

An inflection point came in 2002, when Potash said OverDrive was not in its strongest position as a business. This was after dot com crash, and e-book was almost a dirty word, Potash said. But ...

Many libraries are investing in a digital infrastructure to allow patrons to borrow ebooks on their phones, tablets, and e-readers. Overdrive currently is the largest company that facilitates the ...

OverDrive Media Console—the iPhone app that lets users check out and read e-books from their local libraries—has been upgraded to a universal app optimized for iPad use. The version 2.2 update from ...

OverDrive, the service you can use to borrow ebooks, audiobooks and other digital media from your local library, school or university, is shutting down. In a blog post spotted by TechCrunch, OverDrive ...

We are about 10 weeks into the new year, and how many of us are still keeping up on our New Year’s resolutions? According to some new research, about less than half of us are. It’s OK, though, I get ...

Leading library e-book vendor OverDrive this week released its list of the most borrowed digital books on Libby, the company’s popular library reading app, with Colleen Hoover, Rebecca Yarros, and ...