[LINK] ebooks via library lending

[Jan Whitaker]

Fwd: Publishers Lunch

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>for Library eBook Lending Expand Rapidly
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>The library ebook lending market is getting increasingly 
>competitive, and diverse. At this year's ALA Conference in New 
>Orleans, major new ebook lending schemes, product improvements and 
>new business models have been announced by a variety of players.
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>3M officially unveiled their comprehensive new ebook lending service 
>offering, and is in the middle of a battle over whether libraries 
>that have been OverDrive customers are contractually allowed to move 
>their already-purchased ebook collections to 3M or other vendors. 
>(Permission is required from the publishers in any event. The Kansas 
>Digital Library Consortium is the system testing this provision, and 
>they say their proposed contract renewal from OverDrive "would have 
>raised fees nearly 700 percent by 2014" according to 
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>Journal.)
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>OverDrive has previewed enhancements to their long-established 
>program, including a patron-driven acquisition model, and 
>collections of "always available" ebooks in certain genres. They 
>announced that publishers participating in that collection of books 
>for unrestricted lending include Thomas Nelson, Encyclopedia 
>Britannica, Crabtree Publishing, and Lonely Planet, and eBook 
>supplier Liquid Comics.
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>Baker & Taylor has also entered the market in a significant way with 
>their Axis 360 digital media circulation and management platform. 
>For librarians who already order print products from B&T, the new 
>system bundles physical and digital content in the same shopping 
>cart. On the ebook side, Axis 360 uses the Blio platform, naturally, 
>still only available for the Windows platform, but it looks like 
>that will be changing soon.
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>They have a special promotional relationship with Barnes & Noble, in 
>which the bookseller will promote "awareness" among Nook customers 
>about the availability of ebooks from public libraries, and Axis 360 
>will promote the Nook line as "featured devices"--so Blio books will 
>be ready to run on Nook's android devices--and link through to 
>BN.com for product purchases. And this fall they will incorporate 
>EPUB and spoken word audio titles.
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>The newest entry was announced today, from Library Ideas, which 
>already supplies digital music, games and other material to 500 
>library systems worldwide. Their Freading service (for free reading) 
>promises a collection of over 20,000 titles on a different business 
>model: they charge a pay-per-use fee, instead of "selling" ebooks 
>with lending restrictions. They also offer "tools to allow libraries 
>to control their spending over the course of a budget year."
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>The company says 16 publishers have agreed to supply titles, 
>including Sterling Publishing, Sourcebooks, Andrews McMeel and 
>Regnery. Their pitch is that it allows libraries to make a 
>substantial ebook collection available without upfront cost. In the 
>release, Sourcebooks ceo Dominique Raccah says "Library Ideas has 
>put forth an innovative model that we're excited to explore and 
>which we believe could make sense for publishers and libraries alike."
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