Macmillan has fulfilled ceo John Sargent’s end-of-year promise and will start making ebooks available for library lending for the first time, beginning “before the end of the first quarter.” Macmillan will offer 1200 backlist ebooks from its crime and mystery fiction imprint Minotaur through several distributors, including at launch 3M, OverDrive, and Baker & Taylor. Each purchased title will be available for 2 years or 52 lends, whichever comes first. All of the books in the program will have the same digital list price. That price was not included in the publisher’s announcement, but InfoDocket reports they will sell for $25 […]