Beginning next week, the first of an anticipated 500,000 indie and self-published e-book titles from Draft2Digital and Smashwords (which merged last year) will be made available for library lending via the Palace Marketplace, the upstart Palace Project’s digital content platform. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-09 05:00:00 UTC ]
Kyle K. Courtney, the chair of Library Futures, defends controlled digital lending, the practice at issue in a key copyright case. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-09-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
In an open letter to librarians published this week, Macmillan CEO John Sargent struck a somewhat conciliatory note over the issue of embargoing e-books to libraries, but his message remains unchanged: library lending of e-books pose a problem. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
Macmillan Children's Publishing Group will now offer all frontlist ebooks for library lending on the same day they go on sale in the retail market. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
They say everything is bigger in Texas, and that certainly held true for the issues facing librarians at the American Library Association’s 2012 Midwinter Meeting, held January 20–24 in Dallas. In a climate of stretched budgets, ever-more-complex technology, copyright and legislative issues, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]