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Palace Marketplace to offer more than 200,000 new titles by independent authors
February 9, 2023. Digital Public Library of America is pleased to announce the launch of a new independent author catalog in Palace Marketplace. Palace Marketplace now offers more than 1.2 million ebooks and audiobooks from all of the "Big 5" publishers, Amazon Publishing, Audible, hundreds of mid-sized and independent publishers, and independent authors. The addition of these new titles will help libraries expand access to diverse content at reasonable licensing terms while supporting independent authors.
Beginning on February 16, 2023, Palace Marketplace will offer more than 200,000 titles from Smashwords and Draft2Digital. At launch, all of these titles will be available with a perpetual one-at-a-time license, often at less than $10 per title, with more licensing options to be made available in the coming months. As an additional service to libraries, the DPLA Curation Corps of librarians will be preparing selections of recommended titles to help libraries quickly and easily identify titles appropriate for their collections. We expect to add hundreds of thousands of titles from Draft2Digital and other distributors over the course of the coming year.
"The arrangement between Draft2Digital and DPLA is music to the ears of indie authors, because it means our books will get into the hands of more library patrons," said Carole Mortimer, an award-winning, bestselling author of contemporary and historical romance novels. "In the coming days, my books will be accessible to more than 400 libraries and library systems across the U.S., with more on the way. These are exciting times!"
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Library books are borrowed and read using The Palace Project app for iOS or Android, which isn't the best news for Kindle and Kobo owners.