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Singapore, population 5.9 million, saw 8 million downloads from OverDrive...
All told OverDrive saw 506 million downloads in 2021, mostly in North America, and of course none of these downloads feature in the narrative about how consumer interest in ebooks is stagnating. Per...
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View ArticleOverDrive clocked over 500 million downloads in 2022, and it may actually...
The important message here is a simple one: consumer interest in ebooks is not declining, no matter what nonsense we are told from the stats counters that only count part of the market. OverDrive...
View ArticleHarperCollins adds “high-demand” titles to OverDrive Max
OverDrive Max is the fastest growing of OverDrive’s six access models due to its increased flexibility and affordability. HarperCollins has added 150 high demand digital titles to OverDrive Max,...
View ArticleIndia’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 place among the global publishing nations, but at least there is cause for hope. They say India is a...
View ArticleUSA – OverDrive downloads up 55% on 2021, but no real numbers and some...
In 2021, OverDrive reported (January 2022) 506 million downloads globally. A 55% increase on that would put the 2023 numbers at over 780 million, which is so far off the scale as to be improbable,...
View Article662 million digital books were borrowed in 2023, up 19%. Don’t tell Markus...
With the waiting list at 253 million, OverDrive saw demand for almost one billion downloads in 2022. OverDrive’s digital library lending numbers for 2023 have been announced, and as usual its bad news...
View Article152 library systems in seven countries surpassed one million digital...
While the USA dominated the rankings, Canada managed second place, and Singapore as ever punched way above its weight Further to the report earlier this week that OverDrive saw 662 million digital...
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In 2023 OverDrive’s digital library downloads alone were 86% of total US...
Per The Bookseller, reporting on Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market report for 2023, the £1.83 billion UK take was up 1.3% on 2022. But when it came to the actual numbers of books sold, it was a...
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