Publisher Macmillan will launch a pilot program selling ebooks to public libraries, CEO John Sargent announced on January 24. The pilot, which will debut in the first quarter of 2013, involves more than 1,200 backlist titles from the Minotaur imprint, which handles mysteries and crime fiction. Macmillan will distribute the books under the agency model and work with multiple distributors, including Over-Drive, Axis 360, and the 3M Cloud Library. Michael Lovett, public relations and social media specialist at OverDrive, told LJ the titles will cost $25 each. Once purchased by a library, each title will be available for two years, or 52 circulations, whichever comes first. However, "The program is one user at a time, so they would have to buy multiple copies for more than one simultaneous borrower," Allison Lazarus, president of Macmillan's sales division, told LJ.
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