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Random House eBook Titles Now Available to Public Libraries
OverDrive Adds More Than 6,500 Best-Selling, New Release Downloads to Its Collection
| Source: OverDrive
CLEVELAND, OH--(Marketwire - March 25, 2008) - Public libraries can now offer eBooks by
best-selling authors such as Barack Obama, Dean Koontz, and Christopher
Paolini to their patrons. OverDrive (www.overdrive.com), the leading
digital book distributor to public libraries, has arranged to offer Random
House, Inc. titles in both Adobe PDF and Mobipocket PRC formats to its
network of library partners. In this non-exclusive agreement, more than
6,500 Random House eBooks have been added to OverDrive's e-warehouse,
supplementing OverDrive's collection of more than 100,000 eBook, audiobook,
music and video titles. Libraries can add Random House eBooks to their
OverDrive-powered collection by logging into OverDrive's collection
development portal at http://www.contentreserve.com.
"We are thrilled to team with Random House to offer one of the largest
catalogs of best-selling eBooks in the public library market," said Erica
Lazzaro, OverDrive Senior Licensing Counsel. "Random House's enormous
stable of celebrated authors and popular titles are sure to attract more
patrons to libraries' digital download collections."
"We look forward to working with OverDrive in bringing our fabulous titles
to the library market through OverDrive's innovative download service for
libraries," said Marcia Purcell, Vice President, Adult Library and Academic
Marketing. "We see this as another opportunity for library patrons."
Works by best-selling authors such as Cormac McCarthy, Luanne Rice, Tami
Hoag and Mitch Albom, as well as genre icons like Louis L'Amour, are now
available to libraries as eBooks through the new Random House collection.
Current best sellers such as Charles Bock's "Beautiful Children," Steven
Waldman's "Founding Faith" and Anne Rice's "Christ the Lord" are also
available, as are hundreds of popular children's titles like "Eragon" and
"Eldest." New release titles from Random House will be added to the
collection each month.
To see if your library is a member of OverDrive's network, and to find
titles of eBooks, audio books, music, and videos available from public
libraries, go to www.overdrive.com/search.
About Random House, Inc.
Random House, Inc. (www.randomhouse.com), the U.S. division of Random
House, the world's largest trade book publisher, is home to many of the
world's foremost and most popular authors of adult and children's books.
Random House has more than 120 publishing imprints in the U.S. and Canada,
which publish books in hardcover, trade and mass market paperback, audio,
electronic, digital, and other emerging formats. More than fifty Random
House authors have been awarded Nobel Prizes and the company's books have
won numerous Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, Newbery honors, and
other major literary recognitions. Since 1998, Random House has placed more
than 1,500 of their titles on the New York Times weekly national bestseller
lists from their U.S. publishing divisions, which include the Bantam Dell,
Doubleday Broadway, Crown, Alfred A. Knopf, Random House Adult Publishing
Groups and Random House Children's Books.
About OverDrive
OverDrive is a leading full-service digital distributor and technology
supplier of eBooks, audio books, music, and video. We deliver secure
management, DRM protection, and download fulfillment services for hundreds
of publishers and institutions (rights holders) and thousands of libraries,
schools, retailers, and aggregators serving millions of end users. Founded
in 1986, OverDrive is based in Cleveland, OH. www.overdrive.com