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 ...

Why libraries can’t get audiobooks 🔒 Cathy, the library’s Digital Buying Lead, shows some challenges with Amazon’s ownership ...

Leading library e-book vendor OverDrive this week released its list of the most borrowed digital books on Libby, the company’s popular library reading app, with Colleen Hoover, Rebecca Yarros, and ...

Overdrive is the most prominent digital distributor for public libraries, and they power audiobook and ebooks collections of the vast majority of them. If libraries wanted many books by a bestselling ...

The way people choose to get lost in a book is changing, and it’s costing public libraries and the local governments that fund them a lot of money. Fewer readers are toting around their latest ...

Libraries across the U.S. are grappling with the high costs of e-books and audiobooks, often priced much higher than consumer rates. E-books leased by libraries have expiration dates, unlike those ...

NORWALK — In 2024, residents read stories of resilience when they borrowed materials from the city’s public libraries, said Executive Director Sherelle Harris. E-book checkouts in 2024 were “neck and ...

Mississippi’s new book-banning law is resulting in public libraries denying minors access to OverDrive and Hoopla, two widely used databases for accessing e-books or audiobooks. While the law is ...