The company is considering existing space in two locations, with each warehouse measuring 1.2 million square feet. OverDrive CEO Steve Potash told the Associated Press (via the Wall Street Journal) that he is still "actively working" with Penguin on the issue.Īmazon is in talks with New Jersey officials about opening two warehouses with 1,500 full-time jobs in exchange for a 22-month sales-tax holiday, the Associated Press reported.
The online availability of e-books alters this friction calculation, and publishers are concerned that the ready download-ability of library e-books could have an adverse effect on sales." Penguin is "continuing to talk about our future plans for e-book and digital audiobook availability for library lending with a number of partners providing these services," the publisher said in a statement. Borrowing a print book from a library involves a nontrivial amount of personal work that often involves two trips-one to pick up the book and one to return it.
From the publisher viewpoint, this friction provides some measure of security. publishers "to allow unrestricted access to its e-books in libraries-though it will raise prices beginning in March." The American Library Association, which met with big-six publishers regarding the issue of digital book borrowing cutting into paid sales, noted that a "key issue that arose in each meeting is the degree to which 'friction' may decline in the e-book lending transaction as compared to lending print books.
Penguin is ending its relationship with digital library distributor OverDrive effective today and will "stop offering e-books and digital audiobooks to libraries-at least until it finds a new partner," paidContent reported, adding that Random House is now the sole of the six major U.S.
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