Not exact matches
Over the last year or so, there has been spluttering (sometimes from me) at individual publishers
such as HarperCollins (they of «26 checkout» fame),
distributor - packagers
such as Overdrive, and of course, the idiot
library administrators who sign contracts they obviously haven't read, or they would never have entered into those agreements, right?
Random House's increase was to
distributors,
such as OverDrive, which in turn can add its own increase on to what
libraries ultimately pay.
Both Createspace and Lightning Source use major
distributors such as Ingram and Baker & Taylor to distribute to bookstores, academic institutions and
libraries.
An ISBN is a must - have for all books made available to the public as it is what publishers, booksellers, internet retailers,
libraries, wholesalers,
distributors and other
such supply chain participants use as an identifier for a particular book when they are listing, ordering, recording sales, taking stock and for other related purposes.
We'll be talking to potential partners
such as booksellers,
libraries, media, device suppliers,
distributors, and publishers over the coming months.
When an EPUB Publication is ingested into a distribution system,
such as a bookstore or
library, a metadata record is often provided separately to the
distributor.
One way this issue is managed is by partnering with an e-book
distributor such as OverDrive, which manages an array of digital content for 18,000
libraries and schools in 21 countries, including 15,000 in the United States.47 OverDrive generally charges public
libraries a set fee for use of their checkout system, as well as a fee per title for patrons to borrow.48 The OverDrive catalog for
libraries now includes 700,000 copyrighted e-book, audiobook, music, and video titles in 52 languages.
This past week, Michael Kelley, the Editor in Chief of Library Journal, called attention to statements from Random House that suggest that
libraries own the books they acquire from
distributors such as Overdrive or 3M.