Garfield Heights-based OverDrive Inc., the most prominent digital reading platform for libraries and schools, has made its first acquisition under new ownership. OverDrive announced in a news release ...

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 ...

Throughout the past couple of years, Overdrive went all in on Libby. This was their first mobile app that replaced the Overdrive Media Console. The app is only available for smartphones and tablets ...

Giant private equity firm KKR has agreed to buy Garfield Heights-based OverDrive Inc., the most prominent digital reading platform for libraries and schools, from the U.S. subsidiary of Rakuten Inc.

Last year, I wrote a piece called The Problem With Audiobooks. In that post, I argued that listening to audiobooks is a privilege of the privileged. And I wondered if academic libraries could play a ...

GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio -- OverDrive Inc., a fast-growing distributor of e-books and audiobooks, has started building its global headquarters in Garfield Heights. The Valley View company -- which ...

A new way to borrow audiobooks from the library involves no CDs, no car trips, no fines and no risk of being shushed. Rather, public libraries from New York City to Alameda, Calif., are letting ...

OverDrive is a 27-year-old digital distributor that serves 22,000 libraries and schools worldwide. Potash knows that some people might see his company as an overnight success, but he's been developing ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KKR, a leading global investment firm, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire OverDrive, Inc. (“OverDrive” or the “Company”), the leading digital ...

This week alone, the company announced that it had acquired TeachingBooks.net in Madison, Wisconsin. OverDrive, the digital reading platform for libraries and schools, has been growing during the ...