Macmillan, one of the "Big Six" publishers, will start selling ebooks to libraries in the next few months. In a statement, the company detailed a pilot program that would distribute 1,200 backlisted titles from the Minotaur crime fiction imprint, the first time it's offered a library program. Like most other big publishers, though, the ebooks will come with restrictions: only one user at a time can check them out, and each copy will only last for 52 checkouts or two years, whichever comes first. As tight as that leash seems compared to physical books, it's still better than Penguin's one-year limit or the 26-checkout cap imposed by HarperCollins back in 2011. Library Journal reports that each title will sell for $25 a copy, not terribly...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/25/3916160/macmillan-pilot-program-will-sell-ebooks-to-libraries-for-first-time
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