Who owns
your library's software?
The companies behind it, what they take from your patrons,
and what it costs you.
Open File
OverDrive Built a Product Out of What Your Patrons Read
It's called Amplify. Not a leak, not an allegation: OverDrive's own sponsored announcement, which says it draws on "hundreds of millions of monthly reading sessions across Libby and Sora." Here's what that means on the library side of the desk.
Read the filing →“Aggregated, anonymized, and for the first time, genuinely actionable.”
· OverDrive, on your patrons' reading data
Vendor / Privacy · Sourced
Current Investigations
All filings →- The Library Was the Wedge What Librar Labs is, who's behind it, where the money came from, and what to ask before your district signs a contract with an AI startup pitching school libraries. Following Elissa Malespina's reporting.
- Libby Isn't Your Library. It's a Private Equity Asset. The app patrons think is the library is owned by KKR, the same private-equity firm that owns Simon & Schuster. One owner, both sides of the deal.
- Baker & Taylor Sold Its Library Ebook Platform for $750,000. The Buyers Are the Team That Ran It. Straight from the bankruptcy filings: B&T sold its digital library-lending platform for less than a warehouse building, to a new company run by the B&T team that built it.
- Follett Is on a Leak Site. It Hasn't Said a Word. A hacking group claims it took 4 million records from your school library vendor. It's unverified, the confirmed sibling breach hit Canvas, and Follett still hasn't said a word.