E-book business models for public libraries: a report from the American Library Association, August 8, 2012

摘要

This is a six-page PDF-only update from the ALA's Digital Content and Libraries Working Group on efforts to persuade the 'Big Six' trade publishers (Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, Random House and Simon & Schuster) to sell e-books to libraries 'on reasonable terms'.rnThe ALA's position is that: e-book titles available to the public should also be available to libraries for lending; libraries should have an option to own the e-books they purchase and lend them indefinitely; and publishers should provide metadata to make e-books easier to find in library catalogues and databases.