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  OverDrive acquires Australian ebook company Booki.sh

  1424 readers From the press release: OverDrive, Inc. (www.overdrive.com), the leading global distributor of eBooks and audiobooks, announced today it has acquired Australian eBook company Booki.sh (http://booki.sh). Booki.sh is the developer of a cloud-based platform for distributing, selling and reading popular eBooks from anywhere and on any device with a modern web browser. Booki.sh founders

• OverDrive Acquires Australian Cloud-Based E-Book Distributor, Seller and Reader Booki.sh

  726 readers PRESS RELEASE: OverDrive Acquires Australian eBook Company Booki.sh Melbourne Team to Accelerate the Leading eBook Distributor’s Global Growth and New Reading Technologies (Cleveland, OH) – March 5, 2012 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OverDrive Acquires Australian eBook Company Booki.sh Melbourne Team to Accelerate the Leading eBook Distributor’s Global Growth and New Reading Technologies Cleveland, OH, March 5, 2012 – OverDrive, Inc. (www.overdrive.com), the

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  Books for Cooks to sell eBooks Through Booki.sh

  764 readersThe Melbourne-based indie bookseller Books for Cooks has recently announced that it it’s signed up to sell eBooks, but it’s not working with who you might expect. It’s signed with Inventive Labs, the developers of Booki.sh, a cloud based reading platform. Why Booki.sh? Well, it was natively developed and supported  in Australia.  But co-owner Tim White

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  OverDrive & Penguin: Is Something Steve Potash Wrote in February a Clue to What’s Going On?

  1761 readers Like many of you, we’re wondering about what cause today’s OverDrive/Penguin news: OverDrive Suspends Access to New Penguin eBook Titles, “Get For Kindle” Access Also Shutdown Only time will tell as to why Penguin decided to change their policy with OverDrive (and libraries) but we’re wondering if a letter by OverDrive CEO Steve Potash to customers  (via Librarian By

• OverDrive Launches Browser-Based E-Reader

  1623 readersOverDrive developers have been busy since the company’s March 5 acquisition of Australian e-reader technology firm Booki.sh. The e-book distributor has launched its own browser-based e-reading platform based on Booki.sh technology. The new e-reader will “provide new options for millions of readers” who access e-books through OverDrive’s partners: retailers, libraries and schools, the company said in a

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  OverDrive CEO drops hint that Kindle library lending launches in September

  686 readersWhen Amazon promised to introduce its Kindle format to public libraries earlier this year, the company would only say that it would come before the end of 2011. There’s still been no official announcement, but now OverDrive’s own CEO Steve Potash has dropped a not-too-subtle hint that September is the launch month: Throughout the conference, CEO

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  TripAdvisor Has Bought Photosharing App Tiny Post

  862 readersTripAdvisor, the popular social reviews site for travelers, has purchased the photo app sharing company Tiny Post, in a deal whose terms were not disclosed. The Tiny Post team will move into TripAdvisor’s Palo Alto offices. The Tiny Post app lets users write captions over their photos, bringing together images and stories. This could prove to be

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  OverDrive CEO: ‘Hundreds of Millions’ of Monthly Interactions With E-Library Titles (Video)

  448 readers According to OverDrive CEO Steve Potash, each month, library patrons interact with Web pages that display publishers’ books “hundreds of millions” of times. Just last week, OverDrive announced that it would begin sharing such data with both the 18,000 libraries around the country that it serves as well as the publishers whose books OverDrive distributes to

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  OverDrive introduces browser-based ebook reader

  2509 readersFrom the press release:  Leading global eBook distributor OverDrive today announced plans to launch later this year a new eBook reading platform, “OverDrive Read.”  Based on open standards HTML5 and EPUB, OverDrive Read creates a fresh, direct and immersive reading experience offering significant benefits for publishers, booksellers, libraries and schools.  Unlike eBook apps or devices,

• OverDrive Opens Office in Australia to Propel International Growth

  2118 readers PRESS RELEASE: OverDrive Establishes Australia Office To Propel International Growth Melbourne base supports digital distributor’s expanding services for libraries, publishers and booksellers in Asia Pacific region (Sydney) – Australian Library and Information Association Conference – July 10, 2012 – OverDrive, the leading global distributor of eBooks and audiobooks to libraries, schools and retailers, is accelerating its growth with