Library Journal | Josh Hadro | Feb 25, 2011
“In the first significant revision to lending terms for ebook circulation, HarperCollins has announced that new titles licensed from library ebook vendors will be able to circulate only 26 times before the license expires.
Mention of the new terms was first made in a letter from OverDrive CEO Steve Potash to customers yesterday. He wrote [emphasis in original]:
[W]e have been required to accept and accommodate new terms for eBook lending as established by certain publishers. Next week, OverDrive will communicate a licensing change from a publisher that, while still operating under the one-copy/one-user model, will include a checkout limit for each eBook licensed. Under this publisher’s requirement, for every new eBook licensed, the library (and the OverDrive platform) will make the eBook available to one customer at a time until the total number of permitted checkouts is reached.”
For more see: http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/889452-264/harpercollins_caps_loans_on_ebook.html.csp
Singing the E-book blues – article in ALA blog – Inside Scoop
Here’s a link to a video explaining the issues from a library perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je90XRRrruM
Another debating the issue between libraries and publsihers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcmflnKtETw&feature=related
