Sentences with phrase «overdrive ebook collection»

I checked it out with my iPad from the Overdrive ebook collection provided by San Francisco Public Library.

Not exact matches

The site uses technology from US firm OverDrive, and sells OverDrive's collection of ebooks with Australian or global rights.

«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.

This includes libraries that are disappointed with competitor eBook collections due to low checkouts and fewer features,» said Shannon Lichty, OverDrive's director of partner services.

OverDrive's 2012 Outreach Program Contest recognized the following partners for raising awareness for eBooks and audiobook collections through effective and creative community outreach campaigns:

In April 2003, starting with a modest collection of popular materials, Cleveland Public Library opened the first OverDrive «virtual branch» and pioneered ebook checkout.

OverDrive offers the largest collection of EPUB3 and HTML5 eBooks for library lending; and,

Tempelis spoke on the recent collaboration between digital media collection OverDrive and Sourcebooks, a project which sought to provide definitive numbers to the industry about how ebook lending impacts future sales of the title and of the author's and publisher's other books.

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).

I know many libraries who have a digital magazine selection do business with other companies, even though they primarily use Overdrive for their audiobook and ebook collections.

OverDrive libraries add to their collections from a catalog of over 2 million eBooks, audiobooks, and videos.

To borrow the BLR title, your users will simply log in to your digital collection and the eBook will be prominently displayed on your OverDrive - powered website and discoverable through the digital library catalog.

According to a blog post by Karen Estrovich, collection development manager for OverDrive, 17,000 Penguin ebooks are already «live and available for purchase in OverDrive Marketplace.»

The OverDrive app means you'll be able to use your iPad or HTC Desire HD (as well as many other devices) to download free ebooks on the move and not just the out - of - copyright collections either.

TPL now receives about 300 requests per year from authors to consider self - published books, although it ultimately adds far fewer than half of those to its collection as either hard copies or ebooks in OverDrive.

Library readers borrowed more than 165 million eBooks, audiobooks and streaming video from their library's OverDrive - powered collection, an increase of 20 percent over 2014.

A couple of announcements this week from the OverDrive blog, they've released an ebook and audiobook app for the Apple iPad and are adding a collection of nearly 700 classic and new Digital Books from Disney to library's digital catalogs.

Many libraries use OverDrive as the source of their eBook collection, which has been difficult for independent publishers to access.

OverDrive, the leading eBook, audiobook, music and video distributor for schools and libraries, announced today that six standalone partner libraries have surpassed 1 million digital checkouts from their OverDrive collection in 2013.

If you would like to request titles be purchased for WLS's OverDrive collection, please use this form and select eBook Suggestions as the category.

Penguin and Amazon are in dispute over the terms of sale and lending for Penguin titles, but Penguin's response has been to order Amazon to lock down the ebooks that libraries acquired — using their precious and dwindling collections budgets — so that patrons can no longer check them out (Update: Amazon says Penguin and Overdrive, the e-book lending service, took the action without Amazon's involvement.

With OverDrive, you can borrow and enjoy free eBooks, audiobooks, and videos from your library's digital collection.

The OverDrive integration will allow for the checkout of ebooks from within Millennium or Sierra without jumping to the OverDrive interface; the June rollout of Decision Center, the company's new data - driven collection management tool that will compete with collectionHQ's product; a wave of hiring backed by the new investors, which has already increased the staff by 20 so far this year and will add another 40 by the end of the year (mostly in development and support), according to Massana, pushing the company past 400 employees; the creation of five «library relations managers» who serve as customer advocates at III; the complete integration of SkyRiver Technology Solutions into III along with the termination of SkyRiver's suit against OCLC on March 4.

It will allow all the libraries that have purchased ebooks from more than one vendor, including OverDrive, 3M's Cloud Library, and Baker & Taylor's Access 360 product, to seamlessly serve all those collections through a single application.

In addition, III will expose certain APIs to some of OverDrive's collection development services so that a staff user evaluating purchasing ebooks will have a real - time call to the print inventory for the title.

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.

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.