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Sunday, February 26, 2012

A Guide to Publishers in the Library Ebook Market - The Digital Shift

The ebook library lending policies of the Big Six publishers garner most of the attention, because public libraries regard access to best-selling titles as a critical service. However, it may help to scan the landscape not only for the "Big Six" trade publishers but also for the "fairly large" and the "not so big" and the "further afield" in order to get a fuller sense of publishers' participation in the overall library marketplace. The list is meant to be a helpful, not comprehensive, resource. The focus is whether or not publishers are in the library ebook marketplace. It is not meant to be a listing of all possible ways to acquire ebooks for a library collection

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