They simply WILL
NOT sell their ebooks to the library market.
We're
not selling our ebooks to libraries right now, particularly if we are being published by the big houses.
Not exact matches
In 2013, both Macmillan and Simon & Schuster, which had
not been
selling ebooks to libraries, began pilot programs which were eventually expanded.
Many
libraries and consortium's did
not want
to sell eBooks on their websites and resisted carrying any titles by S&S.
With
ebooks (and e-audiobooks) publishers don't have
to sell to libraries.
What
libraries don't know right now is that the entire consortium would have
to opt into
selling Simon & Schuster
eBooks.
The goal of getting into the
library of course, is
not to sell a handful of
ebooks, but
to expand your potential audience.
In stead of
selling an
ebook (usage license) it should really be some kind of rent agreement (like when you rent a
library - book) if the publishers do
not want
to transfer any rights / ownership
to the buyers.
By displaying the available
ebooks in the various publisher catalogs
to patrons, as well as linking the
libraries websites
to several major online book
selling retailers,
libraries stand
to benefit from the affiliates» program while patrons have the option
to purchase
ebooks that their
libraries may
not offer.
The first is that, unlike print books, publishers are
not required
to sell ebooks to libraries, and many do
not.
The report shows
not only the vast price difference between print and digital for
library purchase, but also shows which publishers refuse
to even
sell ebook titles
to libraries.
Not only are you advocating
libraries becoming a place where everyone can get ALL their
ebooks without ever paying for one, you think the
library should be able
to sell the book too.
It wouldn't be optimal but it would be attractive form the budget management perspective of a strap cashed
library director and the CEO of Publishing House Y, who has just found a market willing
to pay them thousands of dollars a year for a product that requires no additional overhead (they were already going
to convert those
ebooks anyway and
sell them one at a time).
I think it is so ridiculous when two
ebooks in «The Call The Midwife» trilogy are at the
library but they will
not sell the first book in the series
to libraries, you can, however, buy it.
When my friends ask me about eReaders, one thing I point out is that Sony doesn't
sell books, so if they want
to rely on
library ebook lending, they really have
to get a Sony.