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Originally Posted by GracieAllen
A long time ago, a couple years at least (which is about a century in digital terms) there was some big kerfuffle about some <pick your own adjective> publishers refusing to make their ebooks available to libraries. Is this STILL going on?
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All of the large publishers in the US make their books available to libraries now, not sure about elsewhere. Some smaller pubs might not, for sure at this time Amazon Publishing and their associated imprints do not. Recently it has also become easier for self-published authors to get their eBooks into the hands of libraries.
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For example, Brett Battles has a number of books. Over time I've read all but three as epub books. Some I found in the digital catalog of one of the libraries I use. Some I've bought from Amazon and converted to epub so they could be read.
His two newest Quinn books and the newest Rewinder book aren't available in ANY library - they don't even show up in Overdrive for me. Nor do they exist in the Cloud Library.
Was there a change in publisher? In publisher policy? Some other bizarre thing in the industry? I THINK the last time I checked I could only find them at Amazon (possibly B&N)... Is there a simple way to tell if an author has refused to put his/her ebooks in libraries, or is published by a company that refuses?
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Looking at all of the most recent titles from this author it appears he is self publishing them and has chosen to put the books into Kindle Unlimited through KDP select which runs at least 90 days and when in that the eBooks must be exclusive to Amazon. The author my just be experimenting with KU or it may be that he's found the revenue from KU borrows is greater than having his books available at Kobo, B&N, etc. although given that a lot of his books are available in KU I'm guessing it's probably not an experiment. At least some of his books can be borrowed through Prime Reading if you're a Prime member.
As mitford13 says, contacting the author directly (he's got email and various social media channels listed on his website) is probably the easiest way to find out if other outlets besides Amazon are likely to occur.