OverDrive bookmobile to promote company’s e-books, audiobooks, music, videos
“Starting in August 2008, the Digital Bookmobile will host hands-on, interactive training events at public libraries in cities around the United States, including Boston, Cleveland, New York City, Phoenix, Seattle, and Washington, DC.” - OverDrive news release.
The TeleRead take: As much as I dislike the DRM-and-eBabel approach that OverDrive and other vendors use, I’m all in favor of people getting training for the here and now. The more they know about e-books, the more likely they’ll be open to innovations such as social DRM, no DRM, and .epub. Meanwhile I’d like to see more open-source efforts such as FBReader and OpenBerg to provide alternatives—both reading and creation apps.
Coming up in the TeleBlog later today or tomorrow: Librarian Jeff Scott’s tips for libraries and patrons using OverDrive’s audiobooks.
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March 26th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Great idea. I could probably do that with MY bookmobile since it provides a wireless internet connection wherever it goes. It would be like riding around with 40,000 books in a 15 passenger van