More self-published ebooks are coming to a library near you, as self-publishing site Smashwords partners with Overdrive, the country’s largest digital library distributor. Read more »
Big-5 publisher Macmillan, which had previously only made 1,200 ebooks available to libraries for lending, is now opening up its entire backlist of about 11,000 titles. Read more »
A couple days after Penguin made its ebooks available to libraries again through digital distributor Overdrive, the company has also eased up on Kindle (s AMZN) book borrowing. Overdrive and Penguin… Read more »
Penguin is making its ebooks available through Overdrive, the largest digital library distributor in the U.S., once again. Kindle users will have to side-load the ebooks to their devices; they won’t… Read more »
Sourcebooks and Overdrive believe that library lending leads to increased book sales and author recognition. In a two-week trial, they will promote a Sourcebooks ebook on library homepages and see how… Read more »
Penguin will make new ebooks available to libraries once again, after ending the practice in 2011. Prices will be comparable to retail, and the library will have to buy a new… Read more »
Macmillan is making some ebooks available to libraries for the first time. But the company’s two-year pilot program is limited: It only includes 1,200 older titles in the crime and mystery genres. Read more »
Less than a year after ending its relationship with digital library distributor OverDrive, Penguin is expanding ebook library lending in new partnerships with Baker & Taylor and 3M. But neither distributor… Read more »
Do people who borrow ebooks from libraries buy fewer books? A new survey of about 75,000 library users suggests no — but because the respondents were self-selecting and already active library… Read more »