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OverDrive Publishes 2022 Circulation Data
The following are some of the data OverDrive shared as part of its roundup of its 2022 activities:- During the year, readers borrowed 555 million ebooks, audiobooks, digital magazines, comics and other digital content, a 10 percent increase over 2021.
- Sora app checkouts grew 10 percent, and a record number of school systems (4) borrowed 1 million digital books through the Sora app.
- Public library systems achieving more than 1 million digital book checkouts: 129 public library systems in seven countries (+7%).
- More than 14,000 libraries held their own local digital book club in 2022. [In addition,] Big Library Read (global) and Together We Read (countrywide in Canada, UK, AU and NZ) titles were borrowed more than 600,000 times in 2022.
- [OverDrive a]dded 1 million new digital titles and 73 new content partners to the largest catalog of digital books for institutional channels.
For more information, read the press release.
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