The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County sees the phenomenal growing demand for downloadables as a tremendous opportunity for better serving our customers and attracting new users. In 2011 we embarked on a comprehensive plan to expand usage of our eBooks and e-audiobooks. Among the many steps we took to accomplish this were greatly… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: September 2011
eBook samples give customers instant access to content
How many times have you seen your patrons check out twenty plus books at a time from your library? More than likely, those readers don’t read every book in the three-week lending period. Chances are they are simply sampling most of them. Now OverDrive is replicating this experience online by adding thousands of in-copyright eBook… Read more »
Training Month 2011: We’re halfway to the finish
Time is running out! Claim your spot for two exciting live sessions: 2011 OverDrive Experience and eBook Explosion! Here’s what you can expect: 2011 OverDrive Experience: Your instructor will lead you on a tour of OverDrive’s streamlined Virtual Branch experience (including a demonstration of Kindle Books) plus demonstrate OverDrive’s mobile app. eBook Explosion! This session… Read more »
The Kindle Marketing Kit: Get the word out!
On Wednesday, September 21st OverDrive announced Amazon® Kindle compatibility for our U.S. library partners. Since that time, every U.S. partner’s site has gone live with the new service and a video explaining how the process works has been released. Now that our library partners are live with Kindle and are growing comfortable with the simple… Read more »
How to get library eBooks on the Amazon® Kindle
The library world is atwitter (literally a tweet per second!) about library eBook lending on the Kindle for public and school libraries in the US. For details, check out our blog post from yesterday. You asked, and now we’ve answered: Here’s a how-to video so you and your users can learn how to browse, checkout… Read more »
Sci-Fi eBook pick: THE SHERIFF OF YRNAMEER by Michael Rubens
I decided to do my first book review with a bit of light-hearted fun. Michael Rubens, who is a producer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, wrote a book in 2009 called The Sheriff of Yrnameer. It is a typical space adventure novel, but with a whole lot of clever, and sometimes blunt, humor… Read more »
Wherever, Whenever, However…eBooks a 60-year old strategy
Harlequin has been publishing books for more than 60 years, with eBooks as a part of our publishing program since 2006, and while the format itself is making waves in the industry, it’s really nothing new. Authors have a story to tell, readers have a need to be entertained, or enriched, or inspired, and it’s… Read more »
Library eBooks now available for Amazon® Kindle
OverDrive is pleased to announce that Amazon® Kindle compatibility with your U.S. public or school library’s eBook collection is here. See the press release. This update, which is included at no additional cost to OverDrive partner libraries, allows most existing eBooks in your library’s collection to be read on all Kindle devices or by using… Read more »
How Will We Browse?
Cindy Orr provides industry news and ideas for increasing access in her monthly blog post. Research has shown that the number of public library readers who find their books by browsing, outnumbers those who search the catalog. (See The Responsive Public Library by Sharon L. Baker.) At least that used to be the case. But,… Read more »
Revenge of the Nerds: eBooks for geeks
There was a time when no one would want to be called a nerd or a geek, let alone outright admit to being one. In recent times, however, it has become acceptable and even desirable to claim the label. That is why I have compiled a list of OverDrive’s eBooks that best celebrate all things… Read more »