As a follow-up to my post last week on “Quality SWC E-books for the Discerning Librarian,” I recently became aware that on January 7th, industry magazine Publishers Weekly reported that OverDrive, the leading worldwide distributor of e-books for school and public libraries, saw a 33 percent increase in borrowed books, audiobooks, and magazines during 2020.
The global pandemic had a lot to do with that, which should come as no surprise; after all, how better to pass the time than by catching up on your reading?
And as I mentioned last week, a number of our titles are available to those very same libraries, and OverDrive specifically, through e-book distributor Smashwords: my young adult, dark-urban-fantasy novels Blood Feud and Blood Reign (books 1 and 2 of The Saga of Pandora Zwieback), and Richard C. White’s Terra Incognito: A Guide to Building the Worlds of Your Imagination (a how-to book for writers and RPG gamemasters currently on the syllabus for the Interactive Media Design program at Becker College in Worchester, Massachusetts), Harbinger of Darkness (a fantasy adventure novel starring a female protagonist), and For a Few Gold Pieces More (a story collection starring a swashbuckling Thief With No Name).
So if you’re a librarian interested in adding some great titles to your digital bookshelves, head over to OverDrive and place your order today. You’ll be glad you did!
