2022-05-13
NBC News
Some local officials forced US schools and libraries to shut down or limit e-reader apps like Epic and OverDrive after conservative parents objected to content
E-reader apps that became lifelines for students during the pandemic are now in the crossfire of a culture war raging over books in schools and public libraries. Tweets: @natashaturak , @cindyotis_ , ...
2021-09-07
2021-09-06
New Yorker
As libraries and schools transition to e-books, the value of e-book vendors like OverDrive, which make money by licensing content to libraries, has skyrocketed
Increasingly, books are something that libraries do not own but borrow from the corporations that do. Tweets: @penamerica , @hkanji , @janefriedman , @fr_hossain , @alexhcranz , and @readwriteradio Se...
2011-11-22
The Digital Shift
Penguin Group USA to No Longer Allow Library Lending of New Ebook Titles
(This story has been updated from an earlier version to include comment from OverDrive.) — The number of ebooks available for libraries to loan has just shrunk as Penguin Group USA has decided, for ...
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