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Purpose: Provides a regular forum for discussion and to meet at Annual Conferences and Midwinter Meetings. Core represents a large segment of libraries and can be influential with publishers and vendors to benefit libraries and library users as the ebook landscape evolves. Core welcomes any type of library or library agency, as well as consortia, to join this group.

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  • 1.  Fw: DPLA signs agreement with Amazon Publishing to make their ebooks available to U.S. libraries

    Posted May 18, 2021 10:19 AM

    Hi, everyone,


    Congratulations to DPLA for this development. While the Amazon Publishing titles are not available through all library vendors, it is an important step that the content is available at all. The variable terms are a good example for other large publishers to consider.  


    Onward!


    Michael


    From: Digital Public Library of America <info@dp.la>

     
    DPLA is pleased to announce that we have signed an agreement with Amazon Publishing.

    DPLA signs agreement with Amazon Publishing to make their ebooks available to U.S. libraries

    Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is pleased to announce that we have signed an agreement with Amazon Publishing to make all of the approximately 10,000 Amazon Publishing ebooks and audiobooks available to libraries and their patrons through the DPLA Exchange, the only not-for-profit, library-centered content marketplace. This marks the first time that ebooks from Amazon Publishing have been made available to libraries. Like our previous publisher arrangements, this agreement furthers our mission to expand equitable access to ebooks and audiobooks while protecting library patron privacy.

    Amazon Publishing titles will begin to be available in the DPLA Exchange via four licensing models this summer; we expect that libraries will be able to access all of the Amazon Publishing titles by the end of the year:

    • Unlimited, one user at a time access, two-year license

    • Bundles of 40 lends, available with a maximum of 10 simultaneously, with no time limit to use the lends

    • Bundles of five lends, available simultaneously, with no time limit to use the lends

    • 26 lends, one user at a time access, the lesser of two years or 26 lends license


    Library patrons will be able to access Amazon Publishing titles through SimplyE, the library-developed and managed e-reader app founded by New York Public Library. Amazon Publishing is now one of more than 1,000 publishers in the DPLA Exchange and one of more than two dozen with whom we are working to provide libraries greater choice and flexibility in ebook lending models. As with other publishers that we work with, Amazon will not receive any patron data.

    We will have more news about the growth of our collaborative ebooks work in the coming weeks-sign up for the DPLA newsletter to hear about it. In the meantime, you can learn more about our ebooks work here, browse the Exchange here, and find answers to frequently asked questions here. If your library would like to become a member of the DPLA Exchange, or if you have questions about our ebooks work, please get in touch.

    DPLA's ebook work is supported by The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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  • 2.  RE: Fw: DPLA signs agreement with Amazon Publishing to make their ebooks available to U.S. libraries

    Posted May 20, 2021 12:38 PM
    That's great news!!

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    Stacy Tomaszewski
    Electronic Resources Librarian
    Alameda County Library
    She/Her/Hers
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  • 3.  RE: Fw: DPLA signs agreement with Amazon Publishing to make their ebooks available to U.S. libraries

    Posted May 20, 2021 01:20 PM