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New Data From OverDrive: Libraries Break Digital Lending Records in 2025 with Over 820 Million Checkouts and Over 1 Billion Minutes Streamed – OverDrive
From OverDrive: In 2025, libraries around the world continued to prove their essential role in connecting communities with stories, information, and entertainment, breaking new digital lending records in the process. As the need for flexible, on-demand access to books and media continued to grow, libraries expanded their digital collections to meet readers where they are,
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New Data From OverDrive, “Libraries Break Digital Lending Records in 2024 with Over 739 million Checkouts”
New Data From OverDrive, “Libraries Break Digital Lending Records in 2024 with Over 739 million Checkouts”January 27, 2025, by Gary Price Source Links: New Data From OverDrive, “Libraries Break Digital Lending Records in 2024 with Over 739 million Checkouts”
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An App Called Libby and the Surprisingly Big Business of Library E-books | The New Yorker
Increasingly, books are something that libraries do not own but borrow from the corporations that do. By Daniel A. Gross, September 2, 2021 Steve Potash, the bearded and bespectacled president and C.E.O. of OverDrive, spent the second week of March, 2020, on a business trip to New York City. OverDrive distributes e-books and audiobooks—i.e., “digital…
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A look back at a record breaking year in digital reading (Infographic) | OverDrive Blogs
2014 was another record year for libraries and digital reading! Around the world users borrowed more than 136 million digital titles from OverDrive powered library and school websites. This included more than 15 million browser-based titles borrowed using OverDrive read and over 32 million audiobooks! To take a deeper look into the year that was…
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NOOK® and OverDrive partner to provide digital magazines and newspapers to libraries | OverDrive Blogs
“NOOK Media, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), and OverDrive, the leading eBook platform for libraries, today announced a new partnership to enable public libraries to provide readers with access to hundreds of the most popular digital magazines and newspapers from the NOOK Newsstand®. Utilizing OverDrive platforms integrated with library catalogs, library…
