Penguin Working with Baker & Taylor to Expand Ebook Lending to Libraries, Audiobook Lending Also Coming

From Media Decoder (NY Times):

The Penguin Group plans to announce on Monday that it is expanding its e-book lending program to libraries in Los Angeles and Cleveland and surrounding areas though a new distribution partner. In a pilot program that will begin this year, Penguin has worked with Baker & Taylor, a distributor of print and digital books, to start e-book lending programs in the Los Angeles County library system, which will reach four million people, and the Cuyahoga County system in Ohio.
The terms of lending will be the same as those they have been testing through 3M systems in New York public libraries since September: Penguin will sell any book to the libraries for lending six months after its release date, each book may be lent to only one patron at a time and at the end of a year the library must buy each book again or lose access to it.
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Through a third partner, OneClickdigital, Penguin will also begin lending digital audiobooks to any library that is interested.

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See Also: Expansion Plans: Penguin E-Books Lending Service Expected to Be Available For All 3M Cloud Library Customers by End of 2012
See Also: Penguin Group USA to No Longer Allow Library Lending of New Ebook Titles (via The Digital Shift; November 21, 2011)

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