OverDrive's New Owners: What It Means - American Libraries Magazine

Panzer was cleaning the floor of the Panzermobile, when he found a post crumpled up under the carpet under the passenger seat. Smoothing out the post, our fastidious kitty found it was from the American Libraries Magazine site. Reading the post, he discovered it was about the sale of OverDrive. Pa whennzer told you about OverDrive's acquisition when it was first announced.

What do you think will happen?

According to Marshall Breeding, on Christmas Eve OverDrive announced the company was being acquired by investment firm KKR.  OverDrive provides ebooks to libraries. The acquisition will occur in the first quarter of 2020. Japanese firm Rakuten has owned OverDrive since 2015. The post contains different possible scenarios the acquisition would make possible in the ebooks and digital content to libraries market. An example would be the merger of KKR's RBmedia with OverDrive. RBmedia supplies audiobooks to libraries which would augment OverDrive's ebooks to library supply chain.

Panzer says, "It will be interesting to see what happens."

Note: This is a humongous post. Bring a quart of tea and six muffins for today's reading selection. If you plan read Panzer's previous post, bring another cup of tea and a muffin.

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Solving the Self-Publishing Puzzle - American Libraries Magazine

Panzer was out in the Catosphere today looking for sales and marketing information for his books. Our big busy kitty found a post at the American Libraries Magazine site about getting your books into libraries.

Let's go to the library, Mom.

According to the post by Greg Landgraf, as self-published books gain in popularity, libraries are beginning to take notice. Some libraries are actually setting up venues for the self-published to sell their physical books to the public. Even more interesting is the fact some libraries are even making agreements with ebook distributors such as Smashwords. Representatives from three libraries, two in the U.S. and one in Canada, explain their criteria and selection process in interviews in this post.

Panzer says, "Hmmm ... Getting in a library would be a good tactic. The more people know your name and your work, the more they'll look for your other books."

Note: This is a h-u-g-e post, so bring a h-u-g-e cup of tea and g-i-a-n-t muffin.

To read the full post, tootle over to self-published