Following up on Barnes & Noble’s hope to allow limited “lending” of ebooks by customers, the NYT looks at the growing demand for library patrons “checking out” downloadable ebooks from public library web sites. Overdrive says their number of checkouts has passed 1 million so far this year, up from abou 600,000 for all of last year. Of course those downloads don’t work on many of the most popular platforms, like Kindle and iPhone. But publishers are increasingly concerned about the business terms as ebook adoption grows. Simon & Schuster spokesman Adam Rothberg says, “We have not found a business […]
