Update on Amazon / DPLA agreement:
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/...libraries.html
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DPLA officials said that lending will begin sometime this summer, with Amazon Publishing content to be made available for license via the DPLA Exchange, the DPLA's not-for-profit, "library-centered" platform, and accessible to readers via the SimplyE app, a free, open source library e-reader app developed by the New York Public Library and used by DPLA. Library users will not have to go through their Amazon accounts to access Amazon Publishing titles via the DPLA, and DPLA officials confirmed that, as with other publishers DPLA works with, Amazon will not receive any patron data.
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The agreement is also a major coup for SimplyE and the Digital Public Library of America’s growing e-book platform, the DPLA Exchange. After all, to license Amazon Publishing titles libraries will need to use the DPLA exchange and patrons must deploy the SimplyE app to access them. It is not clear whether or how soon Amazon Publishing will work other vendors in the library e-book market, but Michele Kimpton, director of business development and senior strategist for the Digital Public Library of America, told PW last year that the deal was not being negotiated or designed to function as some kind of DPLA exclusive.
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