Thursday, July 11, 2013

Buy Digital Versions of Your Latest Print Book Order in OverDrive Marketplace

Several of our customers have asked for the ability to duplicate a print book order in their digital collection, and a newly added feature in Marketplace's Advanced Search makes this much easier. Here's how it works:

 

After you’ve prepared a print order, simply export a list of titles, including their ISBNs, then copy and paste the ISBNs all at once into the Marketplace Advanced Search ISBN box. You'll then get all the OverDrive digital titles that match the print ISBNs that you have ordered. Just make sure there is a space, a comma, or a semicolon between each ISBN (this usually happens automatically). You can copy an entire column or row at once. Highlight and copy all the ISBNs, and when you paste them into the Advanced Search, here is how it will look:

 

 

Click Search, drop them into a cart and you're ready to go. Some publishers assign a different ISBN for their eBooks, but if some of the titles don't show up, you can search the outliers by title or author to locate them.

 

Here's another idea: keep Marketplace open throughout the day, and as you come across titles on the bestseller lists, or in prepub announcements, or reviews, or blogs, or patron requests, search for digital copies at the same time.

 

We hope this will save you tons of time. Let us know how it works for you.

 

Cindy Orr is a Digital Collection Advisor with OverDrive

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