Sentences with phrase «ebook licenses expire»
And anyway, if the publisher demands that ebook licenses expire after 26 or 52 checkouts, then each checkout does effectively cost the library money because it brings them that much closer to having to buy a new license.
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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 publisher has imposed a 26 loan limit on ebooks licensed to libraries, at that point the license will expire and a new license will have to be purchased to enable further loans.
It began with a February 24 email (PDF file) from OverDrive CEO Steve Potash alerting customers that «Publishers are expressing concern and debating their digital future where a single eBook license to a library may never expire, never wear out, and never need replacement» and that one firm (which turned out to be HarperCollins) had decided to solve the problem it perceived by establishing «a checkout limit for each eBook licensed.»