Starting on May 1st, OverDrive app users who still use it to digitally access a library’s collection will need to upgrade to Libby, a newer app from the same company that also lets you rent library ...

Officials at leading library e-book platform OverDrive said that 2023 was another record-breaking year for digital library circulation, with a 19% increase in library checkouts of digital media over ...

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 Institute of Museum and Library Services will be dismantled, and federal funding for libraries will cease, preventing loans across multiple libraries. Most rural and small city libraries depend on ...

Another year, another record increase for OverDrive's circulation. In a release today, the digital library market leader announced that its customers worldwide borrowed some 555 million e-books, ...

For the first step, we will remove the OverDrive app from the Apple App Store, Google Play, and Microsoft Store in February 2022 […] In future phases, we will be actively encouraging OverDrive app ...

CLEVELAND and IPSWICH, Mass., June 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OverDrive and EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) today announced a new integration that connects OverDrive's ebooks and audiobooks on ...

Overdrive has been delaying the Kindle editions of e-books in the United States on titles from major publishing companies. No new Kindle edition has been available from Penguin since December of 2014 ...

Libraries have seen digital material circulation explode since the pandemic, but the cost of e-books is much higher for institutional use than it is for individuals. One company, Garfield ...

University of Wyoming Libraries has added the ArtistWorks platform to OverDrive, the statewide e-content provider, and Libby, a one-tap reading app. ArtistWorks offers world-class instruction from ...

Your local library would like you to know something: It's not just about printed books and card catalogs anymore. No, it has proudly joined the 21st century. "We are not afraid of e-books," said Todd ...

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 ...