Go Set a Watchman - NOW on hoopla!!

Go Set a Watchman

Did everyone check their inbox today?!

I cannot say enough great things about the work of our content team and our growing relationships with our publishers!

Go Set a Watchman, the most talked about, #1 bestselling novel of 2015, and, according to New York Times, "Perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades,” is now LIVE on hoopla!!!

And the fact that ALL of your patrons may have INSTANT ACCESS to this title?! AWESOME!! Be sure to share this news throughout your library and on social media... feel free to share our posts about the title from our main hoopla Facebook page!

In the event that you missed the e-mail this morning, here's a bit of information about the title:

Set two decades after Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird, this essential sequel follows Scout as she returns from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Back home in Maycomb, Alabama, Scout must reckon with disturbing truths about those closest to her and the sizzling tensions of the Civil Rights era in her community. Timely, deeply compelling, and filled with Lee’s trademark humor, wisdom, and humanity, Go Set a Watchman is magnificent in its own right. Harper Lee and Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon, together, create an amazing audiobook experience on hoopla.

The 2015 Goodreads Choice Award winner for Best Fiction, Go Set A Watchman is available on hoopla in both English and Spanish.

Cheers!

hoopla Music Content Providers

As hoopla continues to grow, so too does our content offering. We wanted to provide our library partners with a list of vendors currently offering titles on hoopla. Please keep in mind that not all vendors' titles are available in all regions, and that this list is subject to change at any time.

Music Content Partners

• Alligator Records
• Altavoz
• eOne
• iMusti
• INgrooves
• Rooftop Media
• Smith Music Group
• Twin Sisters
• Universal Music
• Warner Music

hoopla eBook Content Providers

As hoopla continues to grow, so too does our content offering. We wanted to provide our library partners with a list of vendors currently offering titles on hoopla. Please keep in mind that not all vendors' titles are available in all regions, and that this list is subject to change at any time.

eBooks Content Vendors

• Ambassador International
• Andrews UK
• Arbordale Publishing
• Arcadia Publishing
• Atlantic Publishing Group
• Baker Publishing Group
• Bancroft Press
• Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Black Classic Press
• Bookmasters
• Britannica
• Charlesbridge Publishing
• Cherry Lake
• Chicago Review Press
• Coach House Books
• Cool Gus Publishing
• Disney Publishing
• Dreamspinner Press
• Dundurn Press
• eBook Partnership
• eChristian
• ECW Press
• Flowerpot Press
• Galaxy Press Publishing
• Hal Leonard Corp
• Hannover House
• Hay House
• Head of Zeus
• Henery Press
• House of Anansi
• iMusti
• Independent Publishers Group
• Ingram’s CoreSource Plus
• Inscribe
• Interactive Media
• Jolly Fish Press
• Kids Can Press
• Lerner Publishing Group
• Listen & Live Audio
• Longhill Partners
• Lukeman Literary
• Melodrama Publishing
• Morgan James Publishing
• Open Road
• Orca
• Paraclete Press
• Parragon
• Peachtree Publishers
• People Tested Media
• Permanent Press
• Pie Press Publishing
• PM Press
• Quarto Publishing
• Riptide Publishing
• Rodale Inc.
• Rosetta Books
• Rourke Educational Media
• Saddleback Educational Inc.
• Severn House
• Shadow Mountain-
• SilverWood
• Simply Magazine
• Sleeping Bear Press
• Sounds True
• Sourcebooks Inc
• Start Publishing
• Trajectory, Inc.
• Triumph Books
• Twin Sisters
• Tyndale House Publishers
• Vearsa
• Wild Rose Press
• Workman Publishing
• Worthy Publishing
• Xist Publishing

hoopla Comic Content Providers

As hoopla continues to grow, so too does our content offering. We wanted to provide our library partners with a list of vendors currently offering titles on hoopla. Please keep in mind that not all vendors' titles are available in all regions, and that this list is subject to change at any time.

Comic Content Partners

• Archie Comics Publications
• Aspen Comics
• BOOM! Studios
• Dark Horse
• DC Comics
• Disney Comics
• Dynamite Entertainment
• eigoManga
• IDW Publishing
• Image Comics
• Kingstone
• Trajectory Inc
• Valiant Entertainment
• Vertigo
• Visionary Comics
• WCG Comics
• Wunderman Comics
• Zenescope Entertainment

hoopla Audiobook Content Providers

As hoopla continues to grow, so too does our content offering. We wanted to provide our library partners with a list of vendors currently offering titles on hoopla. Please keep in mind that not all vendors' titles are available in all regions, and that this list is subject to change at any time.

Audiobook Content Partners

• Andrews UK
• Arbordale Publishing
• Author's Republic
• Berrett-Koehler
• Better Listen
• BetterListen LLC
• Blackstone
• Books In Motion
• Brook Forest
• Coral Communications
• Dreamscape Media
• Earworms
• eChristian
• Full Cast Audio
• Galaxy Press
• Gildan Media
• Hachette Audio
• HarperCollins
• HighBridge Audio
• Ideal Audiobooks
• L.A. Theatre Works
• Listen & Live Audio
• ListenUp Production
• Lukeman Literary
• Macmillan
• MMB Media
• Naxos
• Oasis Audio
• Orca
• Post Hypnotic Press
• Saddleback Educational
• Scholastic
• Simon & Schuster
• Simply Magazine
• Tantor Media
• Tyndale House Publishers
• UMN
• Wellbeing World
• Weston Woods Studios

hoopla Video Content Providers

As hoopla continues to grow, so too does our content offering. We wanted to provide our library partners with a list of vendors currently offering titles on hoopla. Please keep in mind that not all vendors' titles are available in all regions, and that this list is subject to change at any time.

Video Content Partners

• 9 Story
• Acort-Maxim
• Alchemy
• All Channel Films
• AmPop Scott
• Anderson Digital
• Astrolab Motion
• Asylum
• Bell Marker LLC
• Bennett-Watt
• Big Kids Productions
• Blue Socks Media
• BluEvo
• Breaking Glass
• BroadGreen Pictures
• Callister Tech.& Ent. LLC
• Canal 13
• Caracol TV International
• CBC
• Cerebellum
• Cinedigm
• Cineflix
• Cinema Epoch
• Cinema Guild
• Cinema Libre
• CJ E&M America
• Content Media Corporation
• Cookie Jar
• Corus Entertainment
• DBM Films
• Diaspora Capital
• Digital Media Rights
• Disney
• Disney Edu
• Dreamscape Media
• Echelon Studios
• Eco-Dox-
• Education 2000
• Engine 15 Media Group
• eOne
• Film Buff
• Film Chest
• Film Ideas
• Film Movement
• Filmworks
• First Run Features
• Funimation Productions
• Gaiam
• Global Genesis Group
• Global Telemedia
• Globe Edutainment
• GoDigital
• GPC
• Gravel Road Entertainment
• Gravitas Ventures
• Green Apple
• Green Planet Films
• Hannover House-
• HG Distribution
• Icarus Films
• iMusti
• Inception Media
• Indie Rights
• Indigenius
• Intelecom
• ITV Global Entertainment
• Janson Media
• Juice Distribution Inc
• Kaczmarek Digital Media Group
• KimStim
• Kino Lorber
• Kinonation
• Koan Inc
• Language Tree
• Leomark Studios
• Level 33 Entertainment
• Magnolia
• Mance Media-
• Marvista Digital
• Maverick Entertainment
• Mediacan International
• Melbar Entertainment Group
• Menemsha Films
• MGM
• Mill Creek Entertainment
• Monarch
• Mongrel Media
• Monterey Media
• Monument Releasing
• Moonscoop Enterainment
• Mousetrap Films
• Move with Me Yoga Adventures
• MPI
• Multicom Ent
• Music Box Films
• MVD Entertainment
• National Geographic
• NBC Universal 
• NCircle Entertainment
• Nelvana Enterprises/Corus Entertainment
• Octapixx Worldwide
• Oscilloscope
• Osiris Entertainment
• Paraclete Press
• Passion River Films
• PBS Educational Media
• Phase 4 Films
• Picture Box Distribution
• Premiere Digital Services
• Princ Films
• Private Tutor
• Questar Entertainment
• R Squared Films
• Rise and Shine
• RLJ Entertainment
• RRKidz, Inc
• Samuel Goldwyn Films
• Screen Media
• Shami Media Group-
• Shout Factory
• Sideways Film
• Sisu Home Entertainment
• Small Fry Beginnings
• Snag Films
• Snapatoonies
• Sonar Entertainment
• Stadium Media
• Starz
• Strand Releasing
• Syndicado
• Technology Skills
• Teletime Productions
• Television Syndication Company
• The Film Detective
• The Great Courses
• The Kiddly Company
• The Picture Palace
• The Shooting Star Film Co
• TMW Media
• Total Content Digital
• Travel Video
• Travel with Kids
• Tricon Films
• UMN
• Uncork'd Entertainment
• Under The Milky Way
• Universal
• VideoFashion
• Virgil Films
• Vision Films
• VITA Digital Productions
• WellGo USA
• Weston Woods
• White Fox S.A.
• WonderPhil Entertainment
• Wonderscape
• Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company
• Youth Sports Club
• Zeitgeist
• Zoo Digital

Confusion Solution - hoopla digital

Are your patrons confused by the many different digital services available to them for media? Does your library offer more than one single copy use eAudiobook platform?

Despite your efforts to provide a bit of something for everyone that walks into your library's doors or accesses the library online, unfortunately what often results when multiple digital platforms are offered is confusion. It is often difficult for library staff and patrons alike to differentiate between numerous models, remembering which has what content, what special software is necessary, what steps need to be taken on which device to make them work. Many "digitarians," or library users of digital services, do not understand why they should have to wait for digital content.

When we developed hoopla, we listened to many of these issues, as presented to us by our library partners. We wanted to provide a solution to all of this confusion.

With hoopla, your patrons have access to close to half a million titles, across 6 formats – Movies, TV, full music albums, eAudiobooks, eBooks, Comics/Graphic novels – all in the same location, all instantly available, all providing the same experience: Discover. Borrow. Enjoy. There are no extra steps. Even our eReader is built right into the app and interface, meaning your entire experience - from discovery to enjoyment - happens in just one space.

With hoopla, we focus our efforts on "one app, one tap." We want to help you help your patrons find what they want, when they want it. We want them to have the same experience across all content, without barriers to entry or usage. This provides less confusion than having to source and learn multiple platforms for content.

What we see happening in libraries throughout the country is a consolidation of eResources. No longer does it makes sense for our libraries to have to host and maintain multiple platforms, each having its own niche content and offering the same experience of having to wait in line to get what you want.

More libraries are beginning to cut out services such as One Click, Axis 360, Freegal, 3M, etc and are consolidating down to just 2 services: Overdrive and hoopla. With these two interfaces, your bases in terms of content are covered. By not having to purchase content from Overdrive that is offered in hoopla, your spending on the single copy use platform may very well begin to decrease, meaning you will have more funds available to provide your patrons exactly what they show you they want on hoopla.

Having one primary app through which patrons may easily access what they seek, our libraries are finding that they are:

- Providing patrons a more simplistic approach to discovery of content

- Focusing their resources and energy into acclimating and training staff.

- Spending more time engaging patrons and providing outreach to their communities.

- Positioning the service for discovery and continued success.

Hang with hoopla for a 10-day San Diego Comic-Con Experience!

We’re very excited to be exhibiting for the first time ever at San Diego Comic-Con International 2016, and we want to make your library and your patrons part of this great comics and pop culture experience!
 
Under the shout out to – “Be Here to Be There.” – we’re hoping you and your patrons will hang with hoopla through social media and take part in the whole San Diego Comic- Con (SDCC) experience. We’ll be sharing posts with you and patrons throughout the convention … all the onsite events, announcements and trending happenings … and, of course, we’ll be sharing all of the event-relevant content that hoopla has available.

Let’s make the SDCC experience a 10-day pop-culture, social media party for patrons!

This whole summer is shaping up to be a sci-fi, pop-culture, and comics occurrence! From Star Trek’s 50th Anniversary to the Suicide Squad emerging from the pages of comics onto film, SDCC will be the place to be … and hoopla wants to help you bring patrons into all the excitement.
 
Not only will we be providing you with daily show posts, we want to give you images and content to create your own.  To do this, we’re filling the hoopla Dropbox with image assets you can use:
 
Access and use your hoopla “Be Here to Be There.” Dropbox assets:

1. Access the hoopla Marketing Dropbox here.
2. Browse our selection of graphics. When you’ve made your selection, click Download
3. When you post/share the graphics, be sure to link your images to our collections.

 
Be sure to check back often for new hoopla/San Diego Comic-Con 2016 assets!
 

Thank You for Being Part of our Success!

We at Midwest Tape only work with libraries. For the past 30 years, we have listened to and learned from our customers, continuously evolving and developing new products and services to help meet the needs of our library partner's patrons and communities.

It is an exciting week at Midwest Tape, as we settle into our new International Headquarters, which is located at 1417 Timberwolf Drive in Holland, OH. Our staff dedicated the full holiday weekend to the move as well as the set up and testing of business processes so our service to you, our library partners, was not affected. It was business as usual upon our arrival to our new home on Tuesday, July 5th.

Our new location is impressive, and it is because of our partnership with you that we continue to expand, create new jobs in our community and continue to develop and improve our services to you.

Thank you for being a part of our success.

Summer Stickers for hoopla Readers

It is official. Summer is here, and so are our hoopla Summer Reading Stickers!!

We at hoopla want to support your library with your Summer Reading Efforts and are kicking off the Read 60 on hoopla for our US libraries as well as our Camp Wild Campaign for our Canadian partner libraries!

Want to reward your younger patrons for their efforts, or are you looking for additional collateral to give away at Summer Reading events as prizes?!

If you would like to take advantage of these stickers as you work to reward for reading, we will send them to you FREE of charge! Simply reach out to your hoopla Customer Support Specialist by calling: 1-800-875-2785

As a reminder, our Marketing Team has put together a great activity sheet, which you may access below, to encourage children to find fun ways to read on hoopla digital, as well!

Happy Reading!