Category: Digital Libraries
366 million ebooks among OverDrive’s 739 digital download tsunami as Kindle Unlimited pays out $645 million to self-publishers in 2024
There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes and the January TNPS round up of the real numbers for ebooks that the industry collectively prefers to keep in the shade.
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Audiobooks: subscription, digital libraries or à la carte? There’s room for all!
The Dutch experience, and the emerging picture from Spotify, shows very clearly there is room for all models, and that publishers and authors that eschew one or the other are simply missing out.
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In 2023 OverDrive’s digital library downloads alone were 86% of total US print sales, while Kindle Unlimited paid out $575 million
Per The Bookseller, reporting on Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market report for 2023, the...
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152 library systems in seven countries surpassed one million digital checkouts – OverDrive
In 2023, a record-setting 152 library systems in seven countries surpassed one million digital checkouts.
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662 million digital books were borrowed in 2023, up 19%. Don’t tell Markus Dohle!
With the waiting list at 253 million, OverDrive saw demand for almost one billion downloads in 2022.
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USA – OverDrive downloads up 55% on 2021, but no real numbers and some implausible extrapolations
In 2021, OverDrive reported (January 2022) 506 million downloads globally. A 55% increase on that...
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India’s “Festival of Libraries 2023” runs Aug 5-6 in New Delhi
Sadly such divisions and Luddite thinking will continue prevent India from taking its rightful...
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HarperCollins adds “high-demand” titles to OverDrive Max
OverDrive Max is the fastest growing of OverDrive’s six access models due to its increased...
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OverDrive clocked over 500 million downloads in 2022, and it may actually have been 587 million
The important message here is a simple one: consumer interest in ebooks is not declining, no...
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How self-publishers are taking digital library eyeballs from mainstream publishers
Bigger publishers might want to pay attention, not just because sometimes indies lead the way with...
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OverDrive’s Sora, the reading app for schools, clocks 100 million downloads – 87% ebooks – that the APA won’t have counted
“It’s difficult to quantify what 100 million books looks like — and doubly difficult when the...
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Singapore, population 5.9 million, saw 8 million downloads from OverDrive in2021, equalling Los Angeles, and beaten only by Toronto as 121 libraries exceeded 1 million digital downloads
All told OverDrive saw 506 million downloads in 2021, mostly in North America, and of course none...
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