OverDrive's Want It Now Catalog Could be WIN-Win for Libraries and Publishers

Library e-book offerings could get a lot more robust if OverDrive, a distributor of e-books, audiobooks, music and video, has anything to say about it. This week at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the company will be meeting with independent booksellers and publishers about its new WIN (Want It Now) Catalog, which will offer long-tail offerings from publishers' catalogs. According to OverDrive, its 15,000 worldwide member libraries do not have 90 percent of publishers' catalogs available for lending.