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 ...

Overdrive announced last year that they were sunsetting their main library app, the Overdrive Media Console. They have now removed it from Google Play and the Apple Store last week. This shouldn’t ...

CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - Jan 29, 2015) - American Library Association Midwinter Conference -- OverDrive continues to be rated the best eBook app for libraries based on user ratings in the iOS ...

GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Whether you're an avid library patron, or couldn't find your library card on a bet, Libby wants to help you find a great summer read. Libby, a new app designed by Garfield ...

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 ...

Avid Overdrive users may have noticed several changes to the Libby app at the beginning of the month. Early April, Overdrive released Libby 9.0 to improve user capabilities. Libby, the mobile app ...

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 ...

OverDrive Media Console—the iPhone app that lets users check out and read e-books from their local libraries—has been upgraded to a universal app optimized for iPad use. The version 2.2 update from ...

We are about 10 weeks into the new year, and how many of us are still keeping up on our New Year’s resolutions? According to some new research, about less than half of us are. It’s OK, though, I get ...

The Branch District Library system is offering county residents a new, free digital option — the Libby reading app from OverDrive. With more people reading and listening to books on their devices, the ...

As library ebook lending for both academic and public institutions continues to make steady progress, libraries are finally able to “shop” the competition to provide the best user experience for their ...

The e-book revolution had already transformed the concept of “going to the library,” even before the pandemic confined large swaths of the population to their homes and shuttered many public libraries ...