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 ...

Overdrive has discontinued their main Overdrive Media Console app for Android and iOS. Starting last month, the app is no longer listed on Google Play the Apple App Store. Existing users who have the ...

Avid readers are always searching for their next read and usually have a line item for book purchases in the budget. To keep ...

For the first step, we will remove the OverDrive app from the Apple App Store, Google Play, and Microsoft Store in February 2022 […] In future phases, we will be actively encouraging OverDrive app ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I once loved dropping into my local public library and reemerging hours later, weighed down with hardcovers, paperbacks, CDs, and DVDs. Needless to say, I no longer do this. The COVID-19 pandemic has ...

Starting on May 1st, OverDrive app users who still use it to digitally access a library’s collection will need to upgrade to Libby, a newer app from the same company that also lets you rent library ...