Overdrive releasing reading apps - Page 2

JSWolf · 05-21-2010, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by DixieGal

Can I depend on you to PM me with a reminder when you get the info? Please?

Why not just make the info public? I want to know about it as well and adding to this thread is a good way to tell us all.

poohbear_nc · 05-21-2010, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

Why not just make the info public? I want to know about it as well and adding to this thread is a good way to tell us all.

Ditto

phenomshel · 05-22-2010, 01:29 AM

Y'all please excuse if this is a dumb question, but I have a cold and it's befuddling my brain. Does this mean that we'll have access to ALL Overdrive content, whether it's available from our local libraries or not? If so, then that's great news, if not, doesn't do a thing for me, as my local library has 2 (count 'em, 2) titles in ebook.

JSWolf · 05-22-2010, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by phenomshel

Y'all please excuse if this is a dumb question, but I have a cold and it's befuddling my brain. Does this mean that we'll have access to ALL Overdrive content, whether it's available from our local libraries or not? If so, then that's great news, if not, doesn't do a thing for me, as my local library has 2 (count 'em, 2) titles in ebook.

It means you can access the eBook (ePub and maybe PDF) that your local library has available. I am hoping this will be a full fledged ADE and if so, that we'll be able to put our own eBooks on the iPad using this app.

AnemicOak · 05-22-2010, 01:03 PM

Overdrive's main market isn't libraries, it's as a distributor to retailers. I have to believe any app they put out will allow you to use your purchased content (except maybe iPad if Apple does something to stop it). Since Adobe has agreed not to develop readers for these various platforms it falls on someone like Overdrive to license the SDK and develop them. It's in there best interest as the more devices that can read the content the more they'll sell.

The Windows and Mac apps aren't a huge deal and there's already one that reads ADE content on iPhone, but iPad (without using the iPhone app), Android, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry are all a big deal IMO.

AnemicOak · 05-29-2010, 07:51 PM

Did anyone go to BookExpo America and preview the apps?

DixieGal · 05-29-2010, 08:25 PM

No, but I am interested in hearing the news. In simple layman terms, please. My library doesnt have ebooks, either, just audiobooks.

JSWolf · 06-01-2010, 12:40 PM

Any news on the Overdrive reading app?

AnemicOak · 08-02-2010, 05:08 PM

Anyone heard/read anything more about these apps?

Nate, if you're reading this, you mentioned on your blog that you'd be following up on them at Book Expo America. Did you get a chance to check them out?

makani · 08-02-2010, 06:36 PM

Any chance these new reading apps will mean kindle owners will be able to directly download books from the library without any stripping of DRM?

carld · 08-02-2010, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by makani

Any chance these new reading apps will mean kindle owners will be able to directly download books from the library without any stripping of DRM?

Nope.

makani · 08-02-2010, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by carld

Nope.

Rats!!

carld · 08-02-2010, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by makani

Rats!!

Yeah, I agree. I scoured the Overdrive site a few days ago looking for any information about potential Kindle compatibility. Sadly the only reference was:

"We should help them [readers] understand that the Kindle is not compatible with their library's collection but that there are other brands of electronic reading devices that are."

Sigh.

JSWolf · 08-02-2010, 11:15 PM

If library eBooks are that important, then the Kindle was the wrong choice of reader.

carld · 08-02-2010, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

If library eBooks are that important, then the Kindle was the wrong choice of reader.

They aren't *that* important. It'd just be a nice extra, nothing wrong with that.

05-22-2010, 01:03 PM	#20
AnemicOak Bookaholic Posts: 14,391 Karma: 54969924 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Minnesota Device: iPad Mini 4, AuraHD, iPhone XR +	Overdrive's main market isn't libraries, it's as a distributor to retailers. I have to believe any app they put out will allow you to use your purchased content (except maybe iPad if Apple does something to stop it). Since Adobe has agreed not to develop readers for these various platforms it falls on someone like Overdrive to license the SDK and develop them. It's in there best interest as the more devices that can read the content the more they'll sell. The Windows and Mac apps aren't a huge deal and there's already one that reads ADE content on iPhone, but iPad (without using the iPhone app), Android, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry are all a big deal IMO. Last edited by AnemicOak; 05-22-2010 at 01:06 PM.

08-02-2010, 06:36 PM	#25
makani Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Cambria, California Device: sony PRS-505	overdrive for kindle Any chance these new reading apps will mean kindle owners will be able to directly download books from the library without any stripping of DRM?

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05-22-2010, 01:29 AM	#18
phenomshel ZCD BombShel Posts: 4,793 Karma: 8293322 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: The Frozen North (aka Illinois, USA) Device: iPad, STB Kindle Oasis	Y'all please excuse if this is a dumb question, but I have a cold and it's befuddling my brain. Does this mean that we'll have access to ALL Overdrive content, whether it's available from our local libraries or not? If so, then that's great news, if not, doesn't do a thing for me, as my local library has 2 (count 'em, 2) titles in ebook.

05-29-2010, 07:51 PM	#21
AnemicOak Bookaholic Posts: 14,391 Karma: 54969924 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Minnesota Device: iPad Mini 4, AuraHD, iPhone XR +	Did anyone go to BookExpo America and preview the apps?

05-29-2010, 08:25 PM	#22
DixieGal Hi There! Posts: 7,473 Karma: 2930523 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ft Lauderdale Device: iPad	No, but I am interested in hearing the news. In simple layman terms, please. My library doesnt have ebooks, either, just audiobooks.

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JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 80,782 Karma: 150249619 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	Any news on the Overdrive reading app?

08-02-2010, 05:08 PM	#24
AnemicOak Bookaholic Posts: 14,391 Karma: 54969924 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Minnesota Device: iPad Mini 4, AuraHD, iPhone XR +	Anyone heard/read anything more about these apps? Nate, if you're reading this, you mentioned on your blog that you'd be following up on them at Book Expo America. Did you get a chance to check them out?

08-02-2010, 11:15 PM	#29
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 80,782 Karma: 150249619 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	If library eBooks are that important, then the Kindle was the wrong choice of reader.