Author and business professor R Stross writes in today’s NYT (“Publishers ve Libraries: an E-Book Tug of War” p B3) that publishers have not yet settled into an industry-wide model re e-book sales to public libraries. Realistically concerned about the e-loan effect on royalties and profits, Hachette, and Simon and Schuster, won’t sell any e-titles to libraries. Others withold their new releases from this commerce, and HarperCollins allows a limited license of 26 loans per purchased e-copy. However, Mr Stross notes that there are “…more than 1,ooo small publishers…[who] happily sell e-books to libraries…”, assuring an ample supply of titles to e-patrons.
(Parenthetically, the article notes that Amazon sold over 3 MILLION Kindles in the month of December alone!)

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