[ISLMA-Share] Overdrive - Scholastic & MacMillan intentionally DELAY TITLES for SCHOOLS

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Mon Apr 16 10:05:50 CDT 2018


Ever wonder why new book titles are unavailable for you to purchase in
Overdrive Marketplace, but yet these same titles are available for
check-out at the public library?

Here's Overdrive's response when I contacted them last week about it!

"I am afraid there are some publishers (Scholastic in particular) that have
opened their catalog to OverDrive for availability to public libraries but
not to schools. This is something we continue to work on with Scholastic
and a few other publishers."

I gave them a specific title name from Macmillan and this was the response:
"Macmillan instituted a delay in accessibility for schools for <my specific
title>- and that may be what is happening with this title."

This may be happening with other publishers too.

Consider contacting the publishers on Twitter or through any other channels.
@*MacKidsBooks* <https://twitter.com/MacKidsBooks>
@*FierceReads* <https://twitter.com/FierceReads>
@*torteen* <https://twitter.com/torteen>

@*Scholastic* <https://twitter.com/Scholastic>
@*ScholasticHelp* <https://twitter.com/ScholasticHelp>

For those of us with Overdrive this is disappointing news.

Diane
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