Macmillan Launching Library eBook Pilot With OverDrive

The Macmillan pilot coincides with the rollout of OverDrive's Next Generation platform, which includes completely reimagined library websites featuring One-Step Checkout, a powerful search engine, and the browser-based eBook reading technology OverDrive Read. Next Generation enhancements in 2013 also include streaming video and audio technology, APIs that enable libraries to fully integrate digital and print catalogs, and the all-new Content Reserve collection development portal.

OverDrive will demonstrate its Next Generation library service platform this weekend (Jan. 25-28) at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting at Seattle's Washington State Convention Center, Booth 1115.

Based in Cleveland, OverDrive offers a catalog of more than 1 million eBook, audiobook, music and video titles on a single platform, with support for all major computers and devices, including iPhone, iPad, NOOK, Android phones and tablets, and Kindle (U.S. only). To find a library near you, visit search.overdrive.com.

About OverDrive
OverDrive is a leading multichannel digital distributor of eBooks, digital audiobooks, music and video. We supply a secure lending platform for 22,000 libraries, schools and retailers worldwide with support for all major computers and devices, including iPhone, iPad, Nook, Android phones and tablets, and Kindle (U.S. only). OverDrive has been named to the EContent 100 as a company that matters most in the digital content industry and is a member of the 2012 Technology Fast 500. Founded in 1986, OverDrive is based in Cleveland. www.overdrive.com

About Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers is the global trade publishing division of Holtzbrinck. The US publishers include Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Henry Holt, Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, St. Martin's Press and Tor. The company publishes under the Pan Macmillan name in the UK, Australia, India and South Africa. The German company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among others S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Rowohlt and Droemer Knaur.

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