There’s an interesting, but brief, writeup on the new Overdrive and Recorded Books services in this month’s print edition of Library Journal.
Recorded Books, a supplier of downloadable material to libraries, plans to announce an agreement with major studios at the annual conference of the American Library Assn. June 21-27 in Washington, according to Recorded Books VP Brian Downing.
The company already offers titles from indie house Film Movement along with public domain and other films, such as The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. The company also offers travel and cooking programming and will soon add children’s entertainment.
Called MyLibraryDV the download service went live in February and already has almost 600 libraries signed up, Downing says, including all the libraries in the entire state of Wyoming. Some libraries are seeing “thousands of downloads and thousands of users,” he says.
Exciting stuff. The service seems to be targeting public libraries, but we have several academic classes which require viewing mainstream and indie films as part of the curriculum.
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