| Overdrive is currently the largest company that facilitates the digital lending of books from libraries all over the world. Today at Book Expo American 2013, the company unveiled their new Media Station. This is a new solution for libraries, bookstores and retail shops to sell eBooks and garner a 30% commission on every sale. The Overdrive Media Station is a HTML5 driven solution that allows customers to read samples and make purchases. Over one million eBooks, audiobooks and videos are available to be purchased. The underlying technology being employed for this software driven solution is Overdrive Drive. This is the same front-end interface currently being employed for the majority of libraries to read eBooks in the cloud. Overdrive supplies eBooks to WH Smith, Books-A-Million and many other companies. They buy them at wholesale and this allows bookstores or libraries that buy into the system to charge what they want and only pay for the titles that are sold. For example, if you are an indie bookstore you can offer over one million titles, earn 30% commission on every sale and the rest goes to Overdrive and the Publisher. One of the exciting factors about the Overdrive Media Station is that it is a white label solution. You can customize the name of the service and theme to suit your individual branding. The platform is also hardware agnostic, so you can buy an ‘all in one PC’, as demonstrated in this video, or setup tablets in your shop or even just offer an online bookstore. How much does it cost to deploy this ecosystem into your shop? It varies, there are no set in stone price points, and Overdrive will custom tailor the price, depending on the size and scale of your business. Steve Potash shows off New Overdrive Media Station is a post from: E-Reader News |
Friday, May 31, 2013
Steve Potash shows off New Overdrive Media Station
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