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Did you ever wonder why many of your favorite authors aren’t available
in an eBook or eAudiobook format from Maine libraries?
The answer might surprise you.
For years, libraries have worked hand in hand with publishers.
That relationship has now changed drastically, and libraries now
find themselves unable to deliver the digital content library
patrons want.
The policies of the major publishers concerning selling eBooks
to libraries are all different. Your library has to deal with
policies like:
• Publishers who refuse to sell eBooks and/or eAudiobooks to
libraries;
• Publishers who charge libraries as much as 5 times more than
consumers for the same digital content;
• Publishers who embargo their content and will not sell to
libraries any newly published digital content;
• Publishers who make digital content available in only some
formats (ePub but not Kindle for example).
If you would like to let your favorite author and their
publisher know that you want to be able to continue to read
favorite authors and discover new authors at the library,
click
here to find a sample letter you can send to them.
POLICIES OF SOME MAJOR PUBLISHERS:
Macmillan Publishing refuses to sell eBooks to libraries.
Some of its authors are Keith Ablow, Barbara Ehrenreich, Steve
Hamilton, Orson Scott Card, Lisa Lillien, and Tatiana de Rosnay.
Hachette Book Group will only sell some eBooks to libraries.
Some that are not available include James Patterson, Don
Winslow, and Pseudonymous Bosch. This publisher is going to do a
pilot in the fall of 2012 with libraries and eBooks, to see how
it affects its business model.
Simon & Schuster refuses to sell eBooks to libraries.
Some of their authors include Jodi Picoult, Mary Higgins Clark,
Vince Flynn, Stephen King, Mark R. Levin, Jeffery Deaver, Brad
Thor, and Glenn Beck. The new Steve Jobs biography is also one
of its titles.
Penguin Group formerly sold to the library community and now
will only sell us some titles in some formats.
In November 2011, Penguin decided to stop selling new titles to
libraries, but agreed to continue selling copies of titles
libraries already owned. It revised that decision in early
February and gave libraries across the country until the end of
the day to order titles before it would stop selling to
libraries altogether. Many authors have books under the Penguin
imprint ,including John Green, Harlan Coben, Lee Child, J.R.
Ward, Anne Lamott, Clive Cussler, Kathryn Stockett, Robert B.
Parker, Stephen King, W.E.B. Griffin, Catherine Coulter, Jodi
Picoult, Nevada Barr, Patricia Cornwell, Charlaine Harris and
Julie Garwood.
Random House recently more than tripled the prices for its eBook
titles.
Random House authors include John Grisham, Anne Rice, Diana
Gabaldon, Stephen Hawking, Margaret Atwood, Danielle Steel, Jeff
Lindsay, E L James, Suze Orman, Linda Howard, Kay Hooper, James
Ellroy, Amitav Ghosh, and Karen Robards. Most eBooks from Random
House now cost libraries from $45 to $75 per title.
HarperCollins Publishers began licensing use of each eBook copy
for a maximum of 26 loans in March of 2011.
Authors include Meg Cabot, Sara Shepard, Tim Tebow, Diane Mott
Davidson, S.J. Watson, Lauren Oliver, C.S. Lewis, and L.J.
Smith.
If you would like to let your favorite author and their
publisher know that you want to be able to continue to read
favorite authors and discover new authors at the library,
click here
to find a sample letter you can send to them.
If you would like to download the letter, click
here. Major Publisher Mailing Information
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