Based in Cleveland, Ohio, OverDrive has worked exclusively to distribute digital content since 1986, becoming one of the first companies to be involved in supplying digital content to libraries, first with audio and then with e-books.
Its digital distribution platform now has more than 3.3 million titles, and OverDrive has relationships with 5,000 publishers and 34,000 libraries, schools, retailers, and OEMs. As OverDrive continues to grow, it has also expanded into digital content in Spanish.
At the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) last December, PW spoke with Steve Rosato, the business development executive, and Elissa Miller, a digital library adviser, about OverDrive’s presence at FIL. This was not the first year that OverDrive attended FIL, but it was the first year that it had its own booth. Rosato and Miller explained that their purpose at FIL was trifold: first, to meet with libraries from Latin America that are considering a digital platform; second, to speak with some of their current U.S. clients that were visiting the fair; and finally, to acquire Spanish-language content from publishers.
