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FW: Update on DPLA’s ongoing talks with Audible

  • 1.  FW: Update on DPLA’s ongoing talks with Audible

    Posted Nov 18, 2021 09:39 AM

    Hi, Digital Content Aficionados,

     

    More news on the availability front.  Audible, which has hitherto not allowed access through libraries, is working with DPLA.  Informed sources tell me that while this press release is somewhat tentative in light of the ongoing discussions a deal has been reached.  Moreover, the most high-demand titles-the Audible Originals of best sellers-will be available in the first quarter of 2022.

     

    One of the few remaining holdouts from libraries-Blackstone, which embargoes to libraries a few titles that it gets via Audible-may no longer have reason to withhold any content.  We'll have to see about that.  If you have dealings with Blackstone, however, it certainly won't hurt to ask them.

     

    Many thanks to DPLA for working on a deal and to Audible for entering the library market with multiple license models. We are not yet to every library vendor being able to offer the content, but this development is a good start and good news.

     

    Michael Blackwell

     

    From: Micah May, DPLA [mailto:ebooks@dp.la]
    Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 10:00 AM
    To: Michael Blackwell <mblackwell@stmalib.org>
    Subject: Update on DPLA's ongoing talks with Audible

     

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    Dear Friends of DPLA,

    I wanted to take a moment to update you on a promising new piece of DPLA's ebook work. As part of our efforts to expand access to ebooks and audiobooks, we are currently in talks with Audible about making audiobooks available to libraries through Palace Marketplace (formerly the DPLA Exchange).

    We are in the process of working through details about exactly which titles will be available and when, but we can share that we are working toward titles being available in Palace Marketplace in the first quarter of next year, with titles added on a rolling basis. We expect that titles will be available via a variety of licensing models, similar to the deal we announced with Amazon Publishing earlier this year.

    At DPLA our mission is to maximize access to information and to ensure that in the digital age knowledge becomes more, not less, accessible. Any agreement we develop with Audible will, like our previous publisher agreements, be embedded in library values: access, equity, and patron privacy. Any titles made available to us will be available to libraries through Palace Marketplace and served to patrons through the Palace app, which you can download now from the Google Play and Apple app stores.

    We will share more information about this project when we have it. In the meantime, if you'd like more information about the DPLA Ebooks program or Palace Marketplace, please email me. You can find more information about the Palace app and The Palace Project here.

    Best,

    Micah May

    Director of Ebook Services

    Digital Public Library of America

    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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