OverDrive to Demonstrate Expanded Digital Library System at ALA Toronto; New Adobe Reader 6, Huge Title Collection, and Digital Audio Book Lending Among Features of OverDrive Presentation.Business Editors CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 2003 OverDrive, the leading global digital book company, announced today that it will be exhibiting at the American Library Association American Library Association, founded 1876, organization whose purpose is to increase the usefulness of books through the improvement and extension of library services. / Canadian Library Association The Canadian Library Association (CLA) is a national, predominately English-language association which represents 57,000 library workers across the country. It also speaks for the interests of the 21 million Canadians who are members of libraries. Annual Meeting in Toronto from June 21-24 in Booth #3702. The company will demonstrate new Adobe Reader and DRM (1) (Digital Radio Mondiale) A digital audio broadcasting (DAB) system for AM radio in Europe. See HD Radio. (2) (Digital Rights M technologies, an expansive collection of digital book products from over 150 US and international publishers, and a system for lending digital audio book titles. OverDrive Digital Library systems are designed to serve patrons remotely from a library's website with seamless integration into the library's catalog and automation services. OverDrive will be demonstrating their Digital Library systems at booth #3702, giving librarians the opportunity to experience the versatile feature set and patron services available in OverDrive's premium flagship product, "Digital Library Reserve" including: -- Support for libraries to lend best-selling audio books allowing patrons to download titles to their own PCs and portable media players. -- Self-service systems for patrons to checkout and return Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. and Palm Reader eBook titles using their own PCs and PDAs including Palm and Pocket PCs. -- The largest collection of most popular titles through Content Reserve - OverDrive's clearinghouse of best-selling eBooks from leading publishers. -- The ability to build open collections of eBooks, documents, articles and other media from local and archived sources. "We have seen tremendous expansion of our library collection in both Adobe and Palm eBook formats in all subject, age, and language categories," stated Pamela Turner, OverDrive Director of Content. Librarians will also be able to test drive the eBook features of Adobe Reader 6 and sample how digital audio books can be downloaded by library patrons. Since OverDrive entered the library eBook market this spring, dozens of additional US, UK and international publishers have added their eBook titles to OverDrive's Digital Library. Supplying publishers include Amacon, HarperCollins, AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Time Warner Book Group, McGraw-Hill, Publishers Group West, Sourcebooks, Zondervan, University of California Press "UC Press" redirects here, but this is also an abbreviation for University of Chicago Press University of California Press, also known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. , Taylor & Francis, Scholastic, and Oxford University Press plus over 100 more. About OverDrive, Inc. OverDrive (www.overdrive.com) provides digital media solutions for leading retailers, publishers and libraries in the US and abroad including Barnesandnoble.com, HarperCollins Publishers, Random House, McGraw-Hill, WHSmith and others. OverDrive is a strategic partner to Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ), Adobe Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE ADBE Adobe Systems, Inc. (stock symbol) ) and Palm Digital Media, a business unit of Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM). The company is a Gold Sponsor of the Open eBook Forum. OverDrive was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. |
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