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 ...

Many public libraries around the world partner with OverDrive to let you borrow eBooks and audiobooks. While OverDrive lets you listen to audiobooks in a web browser or using mobile apps, there are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Angelica Gonzalez used to read about a book a year. Then she discovered the Libby app, which allows anyone with a Los Angeles Public Library card to borrow e-books, audiobooks and other electronic ...

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 ...

Sora, OverDrive Education’s K–12 student reading app, is marking its first birthday with some impressive stats, as well as ed tech honors. The app is now available in 23,000 schools nationwide, an ...

GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio — “All lives can be improved with access to books and reading,” said Steve Potash, the Founder and CEO of OverDrive. That belief is the heart of OverDrive’s mission, getting ...

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 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 ...