OverDrive By The Numbers
-- Publishers Weekly, 1/12/2009
5.3 million: Number of checkouts of OverDrive digital material from libraries, 2008
3.0 million: Number of checkouts of OverDrive digital material from libraries, 2007
76%: Increase in number of checkouts between 2007 and 2008
45%: Increase in number of new users, 2008
8,500: Number of libraries using OverDrive digital download service
10 million: Total number of checkouts since library service launched
150,000: Total number of audiobooks, e-books, music and video titles available for download
27,000: Number of audiobooks available for download
108,000: Number of e-books available for download
1, 2, 3: Rank of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, Eclipse, New Moon titles among most popular e-book downloads, 2008
1, 3, 4: Rank of Twilight, Eclipse, New Moon among most popular audiobook downloads, 2008
2: Rank of John Grisham's The Appeal among most popular audiobook downloads, 2008
4.2 billion: Minutes of digital spoken-word audio delivered to libraries, 2008
