Simon & Schuster announced that its pilot ebook lending program, which was originally available to a handful of libraries and then had branched out to twenty systems, will now expand to libraries nationwide, providing access to its entire catalog of frontlist and backlist titles as ebooks. As in the original pilot program, each S&S title acquired by a library for digital lending is available for unlimited checkouts, one user per copy at a time, for one year from the date of purchase. The ebook program also allows users to purchase their own copies via a “Buy it Now” button through a given library’s […]