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Originally Posted by stonetools
But the publishers aren't making it harder. As i said above, if you read the article all the way through , most publishers are on board with ebook library loans and the two major publishers that aren't, are waiting to negotiate an industry wide standard for library lending.
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Two of the major publishers -- Macmillan and Simon & Schuster -- don't do library ebooks at all.
Hatchette only offers backlist ebooks to libraries, not new ebooks.
Penguin has pulled their new books, and all books from Kindle access.
Harper Collins limits their library books to 26 check-outs--with a standard 2-week rate, that's a 1-year rental that remains in the catalog to clutter the listings forever.
Random House is the only one of the Agency pricing publishers that's still doing normal business with libraries, but they're reconsidering.
That's a far cry from "most publishers are on board with ebook library loans."
And why would they need an industry-wide standard for library ebooks? There's no industry-wide standard for other books in libraries.