A little more than 6 months after entering the digital library market with a pilot program including 1200 backlist Minotaur titles and other titles from romance imprint Entangled, Macmillan has expanded its digital library offerings to include an additional 9,300 backlist titles across all company imprints. That brings the total number of backlist Macmillan titles available for digital lending to approximately 11,000. The news was first reported on Twitter by 3M collection development coordinator Heather McCormack, and Macmillan president of sales Alison Lazarus told us in a statement that “as part of our ongoing evaluation of eLending we have decided […]
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Setterfield Tops November Library List
The new LibraryReads initiative has announced their third monthly list of librarian favorites for November. Their No 1. pick is Diane Setterfield’s new novel, which also appears on the November IndieNext list (as do three other titles.) The full list: Diane Setterfield, Bellman & Black Julia Spencer-Fleming, Through the Evil Days Pat Conroy, The Death of Santini Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else’s Love Story Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement James Whitfield Thompson, Lies You Wanted to Hear P.S. Duffy, The Cartographer of No Man’s Land Barry Maitland, The Raven’s Eye Lene Kaaberbol & Agnete Friis, Death of a Nightingale Mira […]
eNews: Penguin Does Allow Direct Kindle Borrowing on OverDrive; Sony Won’t Sell New Reader in US; And More
Just two days after Penguin resumed selling digital library copies to OverDrive, the company has relinquished its requirement that library users who borrow Kindle editions from OverDrive must sideload them via USB. As OverDrive announced in a blog post, Penguin titles will be available for wireless download via OverDrive’s “Get for Kindle” button, which redirects to Amazon’s website. A spokesperson for Penguin declined to comment on what persuaded them to change their policy. Sony‘s latest e-reader, the PRS-T3, will not be sold in the US, effectively signaling the company’s exit from the market here after years of apparent decline and disinterest. […]
Penguin Resumes Selling Full Digital Library Catalog to OverDrive, Baker & Taylor
More than eighteen months after Penguin withdrew its digital library catalog from OverDrive and severed their selling relationship — leaving libraries with no way to purchase Penguin’s ebooks, until the company re-entered the market in a pilot program with 3M in June 2012 — the publisher has resumed business with the vendor. According to a brief statement, Penguin has re-instated its relationship with OverDrive as well as with Baker & Taylor, effective immediately. The publisher started ebook lending pilot programs with B&T in November 2012. In a blog post, OverDrive said that “more than 17,000 Penguin eBooks are now live […]
Simon & Schuster Offers eBooks to Schools
Simon & Schuster announced a pilot program to distribute a selection of popular books in school environments for K-12 classroom use. The titles are usable for one year from purchase, and are limited to use by one student at a time. The pilot collection includes such titles as CLICK, CLACK, MOO: COWS THAT TYPE by Doreen Cronin and illustrated by Betsy Lewin, HATCHET by Gary Paulsen, OUT OF MY MIND by Sharon Draper, FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury, works from the Folger Shakespeare Library, and FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS by Ernest Hemingway. S&S is working with four school distributors […]
Rainbow Rowell Tops First Monthly LibraryReads List
LibraryReads, the new promotional program in public libraries inspired by the Indie Next List and designed to share recommendations for newly published books that librarians love and recommend, has announced their inaugural September list. FANGIRL leads the list, which also includes Publishers Lunch 2013 Fall/Winter Buzz Book title BURIAL RITES. No 1.: Fangirl, by Rainbow Rowell How The Light Gets In, by Louise Penny Night Film, by Marisha Pessl Help for the Haunted, by John Searles The Returned, by Jason Mott Burial Rites, by Hannah Kent Margot, by Jillian Cantor Songs of Willow Frost, by Jamie Ford Five Days at […]