Read The Books

A new feature has been added to the Readthebooks.  Monthly tracking of individual school usage is now available. It provides the total hits for each school since we started using Read the Books.  The monthly tracking data started in March 2012. I hope this new feature helps your library gain some new insight into how [...]

Wowbrary Updates

New Category for eBooks and eAudios: The #1 request we’ve recently received from patrons is to point them to new eBooks and eAudios. Although we already identify these within the relevant categories (for example, an eBook mystery shows up in Mysteries), we recently created a new category that separately lists all the new eBooks and [...]

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New eBook model

eBookFling Enters Scene as Ebook Lending Option by Cindy Shamel Owners of ebook readers have been known to complain about restrictions on sharing their electronic books. Until recently, neither the publishers nor the retailers supported or encouraged it. On Dec. 30, 2010, Amazon announced the Kindle Lending Club, following in the footsteps of Barnes & [...]

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Libraries at the Tipping Point?

There has been some discussion about what is scary about ebooks? Here is an excellent presentation that, in my opinion, explains the issue pretty well. It’s from the “ebooks: Libraries @ the tipping point” was an interesting online conference that occurred on September 29, 2010. Eli Neiberger (Ann Arbor Public Library) gave a brilliant 20-minute [...]

Traffic and eBook checkout records SMASHED over Christmas holiday

Traffic at ‘Virtual Branch’ websites – Nov. 26-Dec. 31 smashed! If you need any evidence of the popularity of eBooks in the library, all you need to do is look at what happened over the past week. Despite some issues caused by a surge in activity, traffic, checkouts, and new user registration records were smashed [...]

Sneak Preview of OverDrive eBook App for iPhone & iPad

Click  the video graphic above or Watch the Video on YouTube In December 2010, you and your library customers will be able to enjoy eBooks and audiobooks on the iPhone in a single app! this app does work on iPad but because of the different display an iPad & Android apps are also coming soon.

New Literature Criticism eBooks

The following titles have been added to Literature Criticism Online Drama Criticism Vol 040 Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism Vol 230 Poetry Criticism Vol 107 Short Story Criticism Vol 141 Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Vol 241

eReader Comparsion

Justin the Librarian has done a good review of most of the eReaders available in the blog post Justin the Librarian vs eBook Readers. Be sure to read the comments for additional insights.

New in Books, Movies & More

We have been busy making the Books, Music & More page more user friendly. We have had added two new tabs – New Arrivals and eMedia. The eMedia tab contains links to get patrons started with downloadables as well as links to resources which will inform them when new content is purchased. New items have [...]

OverDrive Changes Their Searching On Their Main Site

Last week, OverDrive launched the new OverDrive Search website, which makes it easier for users to discover digital content from our library’s download website. How, you ask? Well, here are some of the improvements that users will encounter: 1. Keyword Searches: The new search function provides users with full-text searching, which means a search for [...]

Who reads eBooks? You may be surprised…

Contributor Cindy Orr takes a look at eBook consumers in her monthly post. Experts say that 2010 will be a transformative year for technology. They’re buzzing about eBooks and eBook readers. Here’s why: Sales of eBooks skyrocketed in 2009, up 176.6% from 2008. eBook readers are proliferating. Sony Reader was first, but it wasn’t until the [...]

New eAudio Titles added to OverDrive

The following new eAudio titles have been added to our eMedia collection from OverDrive. The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had by Kristin Levine Brava, Valentine: A Novel by Adriana Trigiani Exclusive by Sandra Brown Live Free or Die: Troy Rising Series, Book 1 by John Ringo Worst Case: Michael Bennett Series, Book 3 by [...]

20 Million Checkouts

From OverDrive’s Blog February 2, 2010 by Dan Stasiewski This afternoon, someone, somewhere checked out the 20 millionth digital title from a library in OverDrive’s global network. It was only a year ago that we hit the 10 million all-time checkout milestone, but eBook, audiobook, music and video downloads from libraries’ ‘Virtual Branch’ websites have [...]

OverDrive Android App Available

From OverDrive… OverDrive released the beta version of OverDrive Media Console for Android today December 21. The free software for audiobooks can be downloaded to popular phones running the Android operating system, and used to enjoy audiobooks from our ‘Virtual Branch’ website. Android users can now browse our collection, check out with a library card, [...]

Update on OverDrive’s Commitment to Accessibility of eBooks

From the Overdrive blog… Earlier this year, OverDrive shared with many of our library partners our commitment to accessibility in a memo from Steve Potash, OverDrive CEO. As part of this commitment, OverDrive is working to provide alternate or updated eBook software with read aloud and text-to-speech services built-into every title. While these efforts are [...]

iPhone App for Children Books

The International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL) , which is the world’s largest collection of children’s literature available freely on the Internet, today announced the release of the ICDL for iPhone application. Available free at Apple’s iPhone App Store, the ICDL for iPhone application allows users to take advantage of the advanced capabilities of the iPhone [...]

Something for Adult Services/Reader Advisory Staff

Read.Gov

The Library of Congress has announced the launch of a new multimedia website offering resources from throughout the Library designed to encourage the reading of books and to interest users in learning about the authors and illustrators who create them. The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress is offering this site, Read.gov [...]