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 ...

The Amazon Kindle content system is currently experiencing significant technical issues, causing inconvenience and frustration for users. For instance, users have been unable to open new books ...

A student sits by her books in the library. RedShelf and the recently expanded OverDrive e-book service are ways that Harold B. Lee Library is responding to technological advancements and increasing ...

Last summer, over 20,000 libraries throughout the world participated in the Big Library Read, the global digital book club sponsored by OverDrive, the largest supplier of digital content to libraries.

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 ...

The Kobo is an e-reader once sold in Borders bookstores. In addition to reading e-books purchased from the Kobo store, you can read books distributed by your library via the OverDrive system. However, ...

Looking to support the contention that libraries drive book discovery and sales, library digital vendor OverDrive compiled data on patron use from its 18,000 library client sites during the month of ...

While I rarely wax poetic on non-reads, I’ll make an exception for OverDrive, an American-based distributor of digital content like ebooks and music. I credit OverDrive and its partnership with over ...

“Schools and libraries in all forms are transitioning their spends from providing physical items that are being stored on shelves and branches to digital items -- the fastest portion of their growth,” ...

Tablets and ebook readers offer a number of advantages over its paper-based brethren: carry hundreds of books on something thinner than most magazines; it's possible to shop anywhere and anytime; you ...

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 ...