«Libraries will be pleased that the combined Penguin Random House license will ensure perpetual access to e-titles, and all will... Continue reading ALA Responds to Penguin Random House
Ebook Licensing Announcement →
Not exact matches
In February 2011, HarperCollins Publishers made a startling
announcement that rocked the library world: it would impose a restriction on
ebook titles limiting them to twenty - six individual check - outs, after which time the
license would expire and the library would have to repurchase the title.
The library world was thrilled at the September 21
announcement that library vendor OverDrive had enabled its library customers to loan the
ebooks they'd
licensed from OverDrive to patrons with Kindle e-readers — provided that the
ebooks were in Kindle - maker Amazon's sales inventory.