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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.

It seemed like a long wait, but as of yesterday, Kindles are compatible with OverDrive!

Today, there are 4,913 Kindle titles on the WPLC Digital Download Center. Even without a lot of fanfare, yesterday’s Kindle circs accounted for more than 20% of the overall total (348 of 1663), and very few related questions came to the wplc support email (wplc-info@wils.org)