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This Solicitation opportunity from Florida was posted on November 22, 2024. The submission period has ended. Browse the details below for market research, or find similar active opportunities.

OverDrive, Inc. eBook/eAudiobook Platform and Materials

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SS-SS 20-20 REPOST-0-2024/JMState & Local

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OverDrive offers a comprehensive digital content platform tailored for public libraries, enabling them to lend a wide array of digital materials including audiobooks, eBooks, streaming videos, and magazines through a unified website interface. The platform features a customized website integrated with the library’s ILS system for real-time patron authentication, ensuring seamless access. OverDrive distinguishes itself as the sole provider offering high-quality fixed format and read-along ePUB3 content from leading trade publishers, along with exclusive compatibility with all generations of Amazon Kindle devices, including downloads in Kindle format. Its proprietary browser-based formats, OverDrive Read and OverDrive Listen, allow users to cache content for offline use without requiring an active internet connection, enhancing accessibility and convenience. The platform also supports local content uploads, enabling libraries to lend self-produced or locally created digital materials with customizable lending policies. Multi-lingual interface options are available, supporting over 15 languages to serve diverse patron populations. Additionally, OverDrive provides APIs for deep integration with library discovery tools, control over lending policies, and features like patron purchase suggestions. The platform includes dedicated apps for Windows and Mac, accessibility features for visually impaired users, and compatibility with various portable devices such as iPads, Chromebooks, Nooks, and all Kindle devices. The contract, issued by St. Johns County in Florida with a value ranging from $500,000 to $2 million, emphasizes OverDrive’s unique offerings and extensive capabilities to enhance digital lending services for public libraries.

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AgencyFlorida → St. Johns County
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OverDrive uniquely provides a series of services and digital content materials that enable public libraries to lend popular audiobooks, eBooks, streaming video, magazines and other digital content via the library’s website on a single platform. Uniquely available only from OverDrive as a sole source provider, they offer a system that combines: • A customized website service for accessing and downloading digital materials integrated with the library’s ILS system for real-time patron authentication • OverDrive is the only digital library vendor selling high quality fixed format and read-along ePUB3 content from top trade houses • OverDrive is the only digital library lending provider that offers downloads in the Kindle format and compatibility with all generations of the Amazon Kindle, the most popular and widely used eReading device on the market • OverDrive’s proprietary browser-based formats (OverDrive Read and OverDrive Listen) are the industry’s only browser-based formats that can cache the content for offline usage and does not require active internet connection to read/listen to the digital content • OverDrive uniquely offers a Local Content feature for libraries, providing the ability to upload locally produced and self-published digital content into the platform for lending to their patrons, with lending policies set by the library • Download eBooks capable of operating on portable devices such as iPads, Chromebooks, Nooks, Windows Mobile, as well as all generations of Amazon Kindle (exclusive to OverDrive) • OverDrive’s proprietary browser-based formats (OverDrive Read and OverDrive Listen) are the industry’s only browser-based formats that are able to cache the content for offline usage and does not require active internet connection to read/listen to the digital content • OverDrive uniquely offers a multi-lingual user interfaces option for the patron to choose from directly on the patron-facing website, with over a 15 different language options available • OverDrive APIs, available via the OverDrive Developer Portal, allow for deep integration of digital content with library discovery tools • Control for the library to set digital book lending policies and manage access and usage of materials, as well as a “Recommend to Library” feature for patrons to submit purchase suggestions • OverDrive apps for Windows and MACs, a single integrated desktop client software application for use of download audiobooks, music and video • Download audiobooks with accessibility features for the blind and visually impaired • OverDrive MP3 Audiobooks compatible with MAC/OS, iPods and other Apple devices

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