Three months of library drama are coming to a climax this evening as big - six publisher Penguin announced that it is ending its relationship with digital
library distributor OverDrive.
The publisher then ended its relationship with digital
library distributor OverDrive.
Penguin, which removed all of its e-books from libraries and ended its relationship with digital
library distributor OverDrive in February, is tiptoeing back into the digital lending waters again.
Digital
library distributor OverDrive is responsible for providing the Harry Potter e-books to libraries.
For example, digital
library distributor Overdrive sources their digital magazine collection and student newspapers from from Barnes and Noble.
Not exact matches
OverDrive, the leading
distributor of e-books and digital audiobooks to
libraries, has acquired Booki.sh, an Australian company that provides a cloud - based e-reading platform.
An agreement announced today between ebook
distributor and self - publishing platform Smashwords and
OverDrive, the largest provider of digital content to public and school
libraries, is going to give self - published authors one of the few remaining pieces in the publishing puzzle, namely the ability for
libraries to... [Read more...]
Earlier this year, digital content
distributor OverDrive partnered with publisher Sourcebooks in an experiment aimed at establishing concrete data on how readers respond in terms of book borrows and book sales to digital titles they check out from their
libraries.
Backed by Rakuten, a Japanese conglomerate best known in the United States as the force now behind Buy.com, the Kobo brand is well - known outside the States and has just purchased
OverDrive, a major
distributor of e-books to public
libraries in the United States.
Amazon had partnered with
OverDrive, an e-book and audiobook
distributor, to deliver an e-book lending service to 11,000
libraries in the U.S..
Over the last year or so, there has been spluttering (sometimes from me) at individual publishers such as HarperCollins (they of «26 checkout» fame),
distributor - packagers such as
Overdrive, and of course, the idiot
library administrators who sign contracts they obviously haven't read, or they would never have entered into those agreements, right?
OverDrive Inc., a leading
distributor for the school and
library markets, announced Monday that it has reached an agreement with J.K. Rowling's Pottermore website to make downloads of the seven Potter books available for students and
library patrons.
An agreement announced today between ebook
distributor and self - publishing platform Smashwords and
OverDrive, the largest provider of digital content to public and school
libraries, is going to give self - published authors one of the few remaining pieces in the publishing puzzle, namely the ability for
libraries to stock their work.
The Buy it Now button was pioneered by Penguin, who petitioned
Overdrive, 3M and Baker and Taylor to develop e-commence solutions to allow
libraries to sell digital books and then the
library, publisher and
distributor would each earn a commission.
OverDrive, a leading
distributor of digital content to
libraries for patron use, announced today that the 22,000
libraries and schools it partners with generated nearly three billion views of catalog page content in its database of over one million titles among the 192 million registered user logins last year.
Also, Kobo owns
OverDrive — the ebook
distributor that's critical to the U.S.
library market — and has an ebook retail partnership with Flipkart, the most significant book retailer in India; those affiliations can be very helpful if your books do well and catch the attention of Kobo's marketers and promotions managers.
Margaret Harrison [00:02:07] Oh thanks, well so, yeah, I've worked my whole career in publishing and I started out on the ebook side working for
OverDrive, a major
distributor of ebooks at public
libraries, and focusing on ebooks, so much of it is about the metadata, not just getting books into channels but also making sure those books, as Justine said, can be discoverable, can be found, and so I started spending a lot more of my time on metadata, and I'm a curious person so I got to know a lot and here I am
HBG notified all our public
library distributors (including
OverDrive) that we would be selling ebooks to them under new terms.
Under his leadership,
OverDrive has become the world's leading multichannel digital
distributor, building a digital catalog of more than 1 million in - copyright titles and supplying 22,000
libraries, schools and retailers worldwide.
OverDrive, by far the largest
distributor of ebooks to public
libraries, declined to comment, but a number of librarians told LJ that the company holds closely information about its own markups.
Random House's increase was to
distributors, such as
OverDrive, which in turn can add its own increase on to what
libraries ultimately pay.
Penguin ended its partnership with
OverDrive, the largest digital
library distributor in the U.S., in February 2012.
Overdrive, a major global
distributor of digital content including audio books is associated with 18,000
libraries and schools, and has even collaborated with Amazon for its Kindle lending program.
OverDrive, the leading
distributor of ebooks to
libraries and schools, announced today that ebooks borrowed through
OverDrive's network of
libraries can now be used on Kindle Fire tablets using Kindle FreeTime.
That was the Thanksgiving Surprise when our friends at Penguin told off
OverDrive (the big
distributor of ebooks to
libraries) and ordered it to suspend providing Penguin ebooks to
libraries.
That's how Laura Hazard Owen at PaidContent in Penguin Pulls New E-Books From
Libraries quoted OverDrive, the main distributor of books to l
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distributor of books to
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Hachette is working with all three major
library distributors:
Overdrive, Baker & Taylor and 3M.
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.
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OverDrive, the digital book
distributor for
libraries, just announced they are in a partnership with author J.K. Rowling and Pottermore to distribute the Harry -LSB-...].
Working with
OverDrive, a
distributor of digital books, Sony will offer customers access to their local
library's collection of e-books.
Most
libraries use a company called
OverDrive, a global
distributor that secures rights from publishers and provides e-books and audio files in every format.
News tonight is that Hachette (one of the Big Six) will increase the price of approximately 3500 titles to
libraries (via
OverDrive, the
distributor) by an average of 220 %.
The panelists were Christopher Platt of the New York Public Library, Ruth Liebmann of Random House, George Coe from the book
distributor Baker and Taylor and Steve Potash from
Overdrive, a software company that provides ebooks to vendors and
libraries, including the Los Angeles Public Library.
OverDrive is currently the only
library ebook
distributor that enables patrons to check out books on Kindle's dedicated ereaders (in addition to other platforms) and many librarians were pleased by Penguin's decision to allow simplified Kindle downloading.
OverDrive dominates ebook distribution for public
libraries, but B&T, based in Charlotte, NC, saw an opportunity in this market because the company felt a cogent argument could be made for
libraries to use a highly regarded print book
distributor, with deep ties to the
library market, for its digital content as well.
The assumption gains new interest with the news that the Cleveland - based
OverDrive, leading
distributor of ebooks to
libraries, has been bought by Tokyo's Rakuten, which also owns the Canadian ebook retailer Kobo and its self - publishing platform, Kobo... Read More
In my other tutorial we learn about using
OverDrive, the most popular electronic book
distributor for both private and public
libraries and schools throughout the world.
But by teaming up with
OverDrive, a leading
distributor of ebooks and other digital content and tapping into their extensive network of school and public
libraries, the Amazon Kindle and Kindle apps (on PC and mobile devices) will help to improve the accessibility of literature in the transforming digital age of our treasured
libraries.
Leading
library ebook
distributor OverDrive was sold to Rakuten on March 19 for $ 410 million cash, more than 16 times
OverDrive's annual earnings of $ 25 million.
One way this issue is managed is by partnering with an e-book
distributor such as
OverDrive, which manages an array of digital content for 18,000
libraries and schools in 21 countries, including 15,000 in the United States.47
OverDrive generally charges public
libraries a set fee for use of their checkout system, as well as a fee per title for patrons to borrow.48 The
OverDrive catalog for
libraries now includes 700,000 copyrighted e-book, audiobook, music, and video titles in 52 languages.
OverDrive is a digital
distributor of eBooks, audiobooks, and video titles made available through US public and school
libraries.
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is $ 12.99 at Amazon, but an amazing $ 81.00 from both 3M and
Overdrive (the key
distributors of books to
libraries).
This past week, Michael Kelley, the Editor in Chief of Library Journal, called attention to statements from Random House that suggest that
libraries own the books they acquire from
distributors such as
Overdrive or 3M.
According to the American
Libraries Association 2014 Report on the State of Libraries, by the end of 2013 all of the major publishers were offering e-books to libraries, whether directly or through distributors like Overdrive, Axis 360
Libraries Association 2014 Report on the State of
Libraries, by the end of 2013 all of the major publishers were offering e-books to libraries, whether directly or through distributors like Overdrive, Axis 360
Libraries, by the end of 2013 all of the major publishers were offering e-books to
libraries, whether directly or through distributors like Overdrive, Axis 360
libraries, whether directly or through
distributors like
Overdrive, Axis 360, and 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.
Overdrive, a major
distributor of ebooks in the public
library world, found itself caught between the publishing powerhouse and a furious
library community when it was announced that
library loans of ebooks would be capped at 26.
Hachette would not confirm which
distributors or
libraries it is working with — whether it is partnering with leading digital
distributor OverDrive and / or with an
OverDrive competitor like 3M Cloud Library or Baker & Taylor's Axis 360.
OverDrive, the leading
distributor of e-books and digital audiobooks to
libraries, has acquired Booki.sh, an Australian company that provides a cloud - based e-reading platform.
OverDrive, the largest
distributor of digital materials to
libraries, is also providing the sales platform for paid e-book sales on Pottermore.com.