OverDrive Media Console BlackBerry

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Ever wish you could borrow EPUB ebooks and read them right on your BlackBerry? Well with the free OverDrive Media Console you can do just that. This new app lets you find a local loibrary, browse titles and wirelessly check them out using a library card. You can read them right on your BlackBerry, and they automatically expire so you never have to worry about returning them. The app is available free from the OverDrive website and will be in BlackBerry App World in the coming weeks. Keep reading for the full press release.

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BlackBerry App from OverDrive Enables Direct Library eBook Downloads

Free app allows users to borrow and enjoy best-selling digital books from libraries worldwide

Cleveland, April 6, 2011 - Public, school, and college libraries now provide direct EPUB eBook downloads on BlackBerry® mobile devices with the free OverDrive® Media ConsoleTM app for BlackBerry. Users at more than 13,000 libraries worldwide can wirelessly download and enjoy EPUB eBooks, as well as MP3 audiobooks, on their BlackBerry devices. Libraries offer best-selling titles, such as "The Social Animal" by David Brooks and "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett, which can be borrowed and enjoyed using OverDrive's app for BlackBerry. Popular business eBooks and audiobooks, as well as titles in virtually any subject, are also available from the library using the BlackBerry app.

The OverDrive app for BlackBerry is available from OverDrive's website and the MobiHand Superstore. The app will also appear in BlackBerry App WorldTM in the coming weeks. To see if your library is a member of the OverDrive network, visit OverDrive Search.

OverDrive's BlackBerry app provides untethered access to EPUB eBooks and MP3 audiobooks from the library. The app's "Get Books" feature makes it easy to find a local library, and then browse for titles, check them out with a library card, and download directly to BlackBerry. Digital books from the library will automatically expire in the app, so there are never late fees. Users will also benefit from enhancements, such as an orientation lock and custom bookmarks.

The free eBook app from OverDrive can be installed on BlackBerry touch-screen devices running BlackBerry OS v4.7 (or newer) and non-touch-screen devices running BlackBerry OS v4.5 (or newer). The BlackBerry app joins the previously released OverDrive apps for iPhone®, iPad®, and AndroidTM, which have been installed nearly one million times.

OverDrive provides digital distribution services for more than 13,000 libraries, retailers, and schools worldwide with support for Windows®, Mac®, iPod®, iPhone, iPad, Sony® Reader, NOOKTM, Android, and BlackBerry.

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