PublishersLunch
Penguin will lift their six-month windowing
on new hardcover releases for libraries, allowing libraries to purchase/license
and lend those titles immediately upon publication. Director of online sales and
marketing Tim McCall tells the AP it's an evolution of their lending
experiments (under which they have been working with 3M and Baker &
Taylor). "We feel that we're ready to take the next step and offer what
consumers and libraries have been asking for."
Penguin sells ebooks to libraries at the
consumer ebook price, for one-at-a-time lending for one year only. Their
soon-to-be partners at Random House offer ebooks to a broader set of libraries,
with "unrestricted and perpetual availability"--but at prices exponentially
higher than ebook or even print list.
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