Penguin announced this morning that they have made their ebook catalog available via OverDrive effective immediately. This will allow both Advantage account holders AND consortia access to over 10,000 titles.
Penguin’s ebooks are available as a one copy/one user lending model for a one year term. Titles must be repurchased after that time or they will expire.
An app update for OverDrive Media Console for iOS users is now available in the Apple App Store. This new version addresses the issues that prevented users from opening eBooks in OMC for iOS v3.0.1 after upgrading to iOS 7.
Apple released iOS 7 yesterday and many Apple users may have upgraded their device(s) or will be upgrading in the near future.
When an existing OverDrive Media Console (OMC) user upgrades to iOS 7, the app will fail when trying to open a DRM-protected eBook. New or first time users of OMC are unaffected by this issue.
OverDrive is resolving the issue but in the meantime, here are immediate remedies for users:
