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• What will the “Big Library Read” reveal about the potential for ebook marketing in libraries?

  At the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting in January 2013, Eric Hellman, the founder of GlueJar, a start-up devoted to relicensing ebooks under the Creative Commons license, presented an idea… Read more »

• Simon & Schuster announce new ebook lending program for libraries

  Simon and Schuster, launched long ago in 1924 on the back of the very first, and bestselling, crossword puzzle book, is the newest in a line of publishers who’ve recently… Read more »

• Penguin’s lending e-books, again

  Penguin is back in the e-book lending game again. Sort of. After removing its titles from Overdrive in November 2011, Penguin has just announced that it is partnering with the… Read more »

• How librarians should talk to patrons about Penguin … and not OverDrive

  While noting “Penguin did NOT stop doing business with libraries. They stopped doing business with OverDrive,” librarian Bobbi Newman, at her Librarian By Day blog, nonetheless provides scripts for librarians about… Read more »

• Libraries respond to Penguin, and it’s not pretty

  Fallout continues over Penguin’s decision to terminate its contract with library ebook distributor OverDrive — an action that meant its ebooks would not be available for libraries. As we noted in… 11 / Read more »

• Penguin U.S. abruptly stops selling ebooks to libraries

  In a stunning development, Penguin has abruptly “stopped selling e-books to libraries,” according to an Associated Press wire story. As the report further explains, “Penguin announced Thursday it would stop selling… 1 / Read more »

• Amazon’s library marketing not to be taken lightly

  There were some interesting stats about eBook distribution coming out of ALA Midwinter in Dallas this year, not the least of which is OverDrive’s statistics concerning the inclusion of the Kindle… 1 / Read more »

• Penguin pulls ebooks from libraries in apparent slap at Amazon

  In the wake of the furor that erupted earlier this month when Amazon announced that Amazon Prime members could “borrow” ebooks from its Kindle Lending Library — causing numerous authors… Read more »