Self-Published Ebook Site Smashwords Expands to More Libraries in Deal with Overdrive

More self-published ebooks are coming to a library near you, as self-publishing site Smashwords partners with Overdrive, the country's largest digital library distributor.

Digital self-publishing site Smashwords is making its ebooks available to more libraries through a partnership with Overdrive, the country's largest digital library distributor. Through the partnership, Overdrive library clients - the company works with about 28,000 libraries and schools worldwide - will be able to purchase about 200,000 ebooks by 88,000 Smashwords authors and lend them out to their patrons.