OverDrive to provide DRM-free eBook titles from O’Reilly Media

Today OverDrive announced it will offer 1500 DRM free eBook titles from O’Reilly is in relation to the new WIN platform.  Great news! More from the press release:  OverDrive announced today that booksellers, libraries, and schools in its global network will soon have access to DRM-free eBook titles from O’Reilly Media. The publisher’s entire eBook [...]

OverDrive App for BlackBerry Enables eBook Downloads

With the release of OverDrive Media Console for Blackberry v2.1, Blackberry owners now can download EPUB eBooks from the library’s digital collection directly to their mobile device.  Similar to OverDrive’s applications for Android and iPhone/iPad, this app includes a “Get Books” feature allowing users to find LVCCLD from within the app. Users can then browse [...]

OverDrive Media Console 2.2 for iPad

OverDrive announces the release of OverDrive® Media Console™ for iPhone®/iPad® v2.2. With this release, iPad users will now enjoy custom designed graphics whether they are reading an EPUB eBook, listening to an MP3 audiobook, or browsing the OverDrive Media Console Library. Additionally, the app now supports landscape and portrait orientation, and a new calendar icon [...]

Cruz Reader and Cruz Tablet

By Megan Greer is a retail project manager for OverDrive. I’ve been getting a lot of requests for news about the Cruz Reader by Velocity Micro. I can confidently say that the Cruz Reader and Cruz Tablet are both considered compatible and are now listed on the OverDrive Device Resource Center. For this review though, [...]

Updated Apps for iPad, iPhone, iTouch & Android

Today, OverDrive released updates to the OverDrive Media Console apps for iPhone (iOS) and Android, which include the addition of one-click, automatic downloads and other enhancements to user experience. At the same time, they have updated the mobile ‘Virtual Branch’ sites for libraries with a Project Gutenberg collection, enabling access to the 15,000 DRM-free EPUB [...]

Sony eReaders Update

A major update has been made to Sony eBook Readers which corrects the EPUB/PDF issues which library users encountered in older models. If you weren’t aware, there were problems with both Adobe EPUB and PDF eBooks from the library coexisting on the device. With the new models, you won’t have to worry about that any [...]

Updated Device Cheat Sheet

In September, a new librarian reference tool was introduced by OverDrive: the eBook Devices Cheat Sheet.  With the biggest shopping day of the year quickly approaching, they have updated the eBook Devices Cheat Sheet (PDF) to include the Pandigital Novel as a compatible device. You  will likely receive more questions about eBook readers during the holiday [...]

OverDrive and Sony to Promote eBooks from Libraries

Sony Electronics, Inc., developer of the Sony Reader Digital Book, recently announced a joint marketing agreement with OverDrive. Both companies will market OverDrive’s network of more than 9,000 libraries worldwide and Sony Reader devices, which are compatible with all EPUB eBooks and most Adobe PDF eBooks offered on hundreds of OverDrive-powered download websites. With this [...]

Sony Reader and OverDrive

Did you know that Adobe EPUB and PDF eBooks already in our eBooks to Go (OverDrive) download collection are compatible with the Sony® Reader? This is good news for patrons who love to read eBooks on the go! It’s a win for “open standards” for eBooks. Sony and OverDrive are promoting the new EPUB (XML) [...]

ePub Books Now Available

This week we added ePub Books to our eBooks To Go catalog. What are ePub books? They are ebooks formated to be read on Sony Readers. They also work with Adobe Digital Reader. The number of titles available is current small but we will be adding additional titles each month so keep checking back.

Harper Collins – OverDrive Update

In OverDrive (eBook to Go) HarperCollins will no longer be providing their titles in PDF and/or Mobipocket eBooks format.  However, they will start providing their titles in the ePUB format.  The  .epub format  will allow ebooks to be read using a wide range of software and eletronic book readers including the iPhone (using the Stanza [...]