March 12, 2012 by Gary Price
From Michael Kelley at Library Journal: The largest library network in California is going to adopt the pioneering ebook business model of Colorado’s Douglas County Libraries, which allows libraries to truly own, not rent, their ebooks. The San Mateo-based Califa Group, which brokers services and products for 220 multi-type library systems (1000 buildings), has seeded […]
June 30, 2011 by Gary Price
A new blog post by GlueJar President and the founder of Go To Hellman (one of our favorite blogs), Eric Hellman. From the Blog Post: When Douglas County Libraries began investigating how to put ebooks into county resident’s computers, they wanted to do something similar. A user looking for ebooks should be greeted with a […]
May 22, 2011 by Gary Price
From the EQUACC Blog (ALA’s Presidential Task Force on Equitable Access to Electronic Content) Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA) and the Douglas County Libraries (DCL) announce the May 18, 2011 signing of their historic agreement. Key features of that agreement include: CIPA agrees to facilitate the sale (not the rental) of ebooks to the library […]