Leading Digital Media Services
OverDrive provides world-class infrastructure for distributing premium digital content. We empower publishers, enterprises, libraries, schools, and retailers to maximize their presences in the digital world by enabling them to securely manage, protect, and lend or sell digital audiobooks, eBooks, music, and videos.
OverDrive helps its partners to thrive in the digital media market with products including:
These trusted products comprise the infrastructure to distribute digital media for global leaders such as Microsoft®, HarperCollins, Random House, and McGraw-Hill, large metropolitan libraries including New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, thousands of smaller libraries, and internationally in Singapore, Mexico, Canada, and Australia.
History of Excellence
OverDrive has been working with digital media since 1986. As an early leader in the digital media industry, we began developing interactive diskette and CD-ROM media products in the '80s. As technology progressed, so did we. We moved from providing digital media in physical formats to providing digital media downloaded through the Internet.
In 2000, we launched Content Reserve, our online digital warehouse that now contains
over 200,000 downloadable titles from hundreds of publishers. In 2002, we launched Digital Library Reserve extending our services to libraries, which have proven aggressive in adopting digital media. The popularity of our audiobooks soared, becoming our flagship offering as libraries added downloadable media to their collections. In 2006, OverDrive introduced
School Download Library, a download service for K-12 students. Today, OverDrive works with partners
worldwide as the leading digital infrastructure provider for managing, protecting, and distributing download media.
Best Download Provider
Our customers benefit from the circulation or sales our solutions help drive. Three main categories define what we do:
Manage:
OverDrive enables the upload, hosting, and sharing of popular audiobooks, eBooks, music, and video, as well as local content (where a library is the copyright-holder). An easy-to-use admin portal simplifies content selection, purchase, and activity tracking via real-time reports. We provide expert training and support as needed.
Protect:
Whether you're the rights holder or the public-facing channel, end users will be enabled to download your DRM-protected content. We provide user authentication for OverDrive-hosted websites, and integrate smoothly with your authentication if you're the host.
Fulfill:
A single platform for audiobooks, eBooks, music, and video simplifies the browse and download experience on a custom-designed
and hosted or existing website. The OverDrive Media Console, our free download software, enhances usability and portability of audiobooks, music, and video with advanced navigation, transfer wizard (to supported mobile devices), and accessibility features.
Looking Forward
OverDrive is continually working to stay ahead of new trends in digital media. From an expanding collection of download titles to evolving trends in digital rights management to new formats for eBooks, audiobooks, music, and videos, OverDrive strives to keep partners at the forefront of digital media technology. We stand by our partners to protect their investments in digital commerce and will continue to do so as digital environments evolve.
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