Sentences with phrase «overdrive ebook offering»
The Boston Public Library subscribes to the OverDrive ebook offering and there are a number of titles in ePub format.
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OverDrive, one of the nation's leading ebook lending platforms that supplies the ebook titles to school and public libraries that offer digital lending services, will once again be bringing its tractor - trailer bookmobile on the road, this time attending this weekend's National Book Festival in Washington,... [Read more...]
«Macmillan offers a wide collection of children's and young - adult eBooks perfect for the K - 12 audience,» said Karen Estrovich, Director of Collection Development at OverDrive.
Overdrive revealed exclusively to Good e-Reader at Book Expo America their new streaming video platform that allows libraries to offer video in addition to eBooks and audiobooks.
Overdrive, Baker & Taylor and 3M Cloud are all offering the ability for patrons to purchase eBooks from Penguin and Simon and Schuster.
There are links to erotic fiction offered to little kids from the landing page of OverDrive ebooks — the links open, are fully readable and even have audio.
Because of these discussions, as of February 10, 2012, Penguin will no longer offer additional copies of ebooks and audiobooks for purchase via OverDrive.»
This is not to mention that with ebooks, the library doesn't actually own anything: they pay OverDrive (or another service) for the right to offer the book, plus they pay for the individual titles.
Overdrive was the first company to offer all seven of the Harry Potter ebooks for library patrons to borrow digitally.
With the popularity of comics - based TV shows and movies growing internationally, OverDrive's global eBook catalog now also offers comics and graphic novels from IDW Publishing, Dark Horse Comics, BOOM!
Overdrive has until recently offered the ability for libraries and clients to pre-order the Harry Potter eBooks and Audiobooks.
It offers library patrons seamless search and access to audiobooks from Acoustik, magazines from Zinio, and eBooks from OverDrive and Baker & Taylor's Axis 360 platform.
OverDrive offers eBooks, audiobooks, streaming video, and read - alongs for classroom and personal use.
We offer a variety of services including: eBook conversions (ePub and MOBI), print - on - demand, distribution (Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, OverDrive, etc.) cover designs, marketing assistance, and even website and app development.
According to an article by Michael Kelley of The Digital Shift, Amazon launched its lending program in early November with only 5,000 titles — paltry compared to a public library's offering of titles through OverDrive, such as the Columbus Public Library's offering of over 17,000 ebooks — but that number quickly grew to over 66,000 by the following month.
According to a press release on the program, «OverDrive offers libraries and schools the industry's largest and most complete eBook catalog, including Kindle eBooks from more than 800 publishers.
But this agreement will enable indie authors to offer their books as part of OverDrive's one million - plus title catalog, allowing libraries that option to find and stock the ebooks.
OverDrive, one of the nation's leading ebook lending platforms that supplies the ebook titles to school and public libraries that offer digital lending services, will once again be bringing its tractor - trailer bookmobile on the road, this time attending this weekend's National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Overdrive offers a wide selection of ebooks for different states and countries.
OverDrive offers the largest collection of EPUB3 and HTML5 eBooks for library lending; and,
With the abundance of self - publishing opportunities available to authors now, and even opportunities like library distribution thanks to this morning's announcement that Smashwords and OverDrive are pairing up on ebook lending, the real stand out will be in the ways that companies can offer book promotion to their clients.
However, if libraries don't find a way to distribute eBooks in a reasonable manner (which the Overdrive model fails to do) and provide a comprehensive collection of books from traditional publishers (which, of course, neither Amazon nor libraries offers at present), then libraries will become marginalized and, ultimately, fade from the scene (IMHO).
«Public libraries offer for lending a small fraction of publishers» eBook or audiobook catalogs,» said Erica Lazzaro, OverDrive Director of Publisher Relations.
OverDrive's global eBook catalog now offers thousands of comics and graphic novels, including new additions from DC Comics and Viz Media.
OverDrive, working with many of our public library directors, has offered buy - it - now service, alongside ebooks and digital audio books, as early as four or five years ago.
When the Kansas Digital Library Consortium's contract with digital - content distributor OverDrive was up for renewal last year, two issues made Kansas State Librarian Joanne Budler decide it was time to move on and transfer the ebook titles to another vendor who could offer a better deal.
More than 13,000 public libraries, schools, colleges, and universities now offer eBook and audiobook downloads via OverDrive, including institutions in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and nine other countries.
Last September Overdrive came to terms with Penguin to offer over 17,000 eBooks to be made available to libraries in the United States.
Because of these discussions, as of February 10, 2012, Penguin will no longer offer additional copies of eBooks and audiobooks for purchase via Overdrive.
Booksellers now have more ebook technology choices than they had when Google first pitched its service, including three home - grown offerings: ReadCloud, Booki.sh (now owned by US digital distributor OverDrive), and the soon - to - be-launched TitlePage Plus.
For libraries searching for solutions that allow them to offer ebooks as part of their lending library, there are several ebook borrowing systems that have been developed to make digital lending management easier, including Baker & Taylor's Axis 360, the 3M Cloud Library, and OverDrive.
Random House currently offers ebooks to libraries through 3M, Baker & Taylor, Follett, and OverDrive.
With «Library Lending for Kindle Books» Amazon is partnering with OverDrive to offer the next big leap in digital books: library - ification of ebooks.
The Free Library already offers OverDrive, Ebooks on EBSCOhost, and last week went live with Freading.
Plummer - Morgan's library, which began offering Axis 360 in February, also belongs to the InfoNet consortium, which, like the Ohio Ebook Project, offers OverDrive's Advantage service.
Similarly priced and with similar specifications, the Glo HD provides a reasonably affordable gateway to Kobo's online offerings, including access to their respectably sized ebook store, the ability to borrow library books through OverDrive, and online content through the use of a Pocket account.
To a large degree, Overdrive and the ebook offerings of libraries are flying under the mainstream radar in America as well.
All you need to do is check out whether your local library offers ebooks via OverDrive.
We offer ebooks in French (Numilog), English (Overdrive) and German (Ciando).
Kodansha Advanced Media announced on Tuesday that it will offer Kodansha Comics» eBooks in public libraries in the United States and Canada via OverDrive, the largest digital media provider for public libraries.
The Kansas state librarian is making steady gains in her unprecedented year - long battle to wrest the statewide consortium ebook collection from OverDrive's platform and make it accessible, at no charge, on the new platform being offered by 3M.
Starting February 10, Penguin, which had recently instituted limitations on library lending for ebooks and audiobooks, will now no longer offer any ebooks or audiobooks through OverDrive.
Sony, working with OverDrive (www.overdrive.com), the leading global digital distributor of eBooks and to libraries, will now offer visitors to the eBook Store by Sony easy access to their local library's collection of eBooks.
The LexisNexis Digital Library offers access to LexisNexis» growing collection of more than 1,100 ebooks through OverDrive.