OverDrive 2009 Stats Show Huge eBook Growth
OverDrive, the eBooks and downloadable audiobooks distributor for libraries, has just released its 2009 library stats. The release summarizes the most-checked-out eBooks and audiobooks at OverDrive-client libraries. The most popular eBook was, not surprisingly, Dan Brown’s Lost Symbol.
More surprising, however, is the fact that, according to OverDrive, there were “401 million website pages viewed by library patrons (69 percent growth over 2008) and 8.7 million digital titles checked out (63 percent increase over 2008)”
The “Digital titles” mentioned above include eBooks, audiobooks, and music.
Here are the top five adult fiction and nonfiction titles according to OverDrive:
Most Downloaded Adult Fiction eBooks from the Library (2009)
(Title, Author, Publisher)1.
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