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Big Five Publishers and Library Lending

Penguin —formed in July and audio : Library lending terms: Library pricing: Available through: Consortium Access: 2013 by the merger of USA As of January 1, 2016, Penguin All titles available under Varies, but is capped at $65 Overdrive, Bibliotheca Cloud Consortium licensing permitted for and Random House. Random House makes its complete perpetual licensing. One per . Library, B&T Axis 360 , public, academic and school libraries. Penguin Group USA is an affiliate of frontlist and backlist of ebooks circulation at a time with Previously: Random House MyiLibrary/Proquest, (3/3/2015) -based Penguin Group which is a available for library lending under the no loan limits or period had a cap of $85. Penguin EBSCO, Permabound, Odilo, division of Pearson . Among its imprints are same terms. of use limits. library pricing was similar to Bibliocommons, Follett, Viking, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, The Penguin Previously: Penguin and Random Previously: Penguin had what is offered to individual Recorded Books, Mackin Press, , Dutton, Penguin House had different terms. a one-year expiration date consumers. Educational Resources. Books, , Gotham Books, on ebooks licensed to Portfolio, , , Digital audio titles are available for libraries. Tarcher, Philomel, Grosset & Dunlap, library lending. Puffin, and Frederick Warne. Random House is owned by since 1998. Random House operates its own imprint and many others such as Alfred A. Knopf, Ballantine, Bantam, Dell, Pantheon, and .

HarperCollins Publishers Ebooks and audio: Library lending terms: Library pricing: Available through: Consortium Access: Owned by ’s HarperCollins offers its complete ebook License must be Varies, but generally not Overdrive, Bibliotheca Cloud Consortium licensing permitted for Corporation . The firm’s groups and audio catalog for library lending. In renewed after 26 loans. more than the cost of Library, B&T, Bolinda, public, academic and school libraries. include , HarperCollins General February 2011 HarperCollins instituted hardcover equivalent and Booksource, Feedbooks, (4/14/2015) Books, HarperCollins Children’s Book a limit of 26 circulations after which the often much less. Gardners, Mackin Group, and HarperCollins UK and library must renew its license by buying Educational Resources, Canadian, Australian, and the title again. Odilo, One-Click Digital, and publishing. HarperCollins has released Perma-bound. more than 8,700 ebooks and 50 enhanced (12/3/2015) ebooks, according to its US website.

Macmillan Ebooks and audio : Library lending terms: Library pricing: Available through: Consortium Access: Owned by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Currently: On July 29, 2014 , Macmillan All titles are available Titles published less than 12 OverDrive, B&T Axis 360, Consortium licensing permitted as of Holtzbrinck , of Stuttgart, . announced that its entire frontlist and for a two-year/52-lend months ago: $60. Bibliotheca Cloud Library, September 12, 2014 . Public and American imprints include Farrar Straus backlist will be available under its period (whichever Titles published 12 months Recorded Books (One Click academic libraries may license and Giroux, Henry Holt & Company, W.H. library lending program. comes first). ago or more: $40. Digital), Odilo, Mackin individually or through consortia. Freeman and Worth Publishers, Palgrave Previously: On October 17, 2013 , Educational Resources, School libraries may license Macmillan, Bedford/St. Martin’s, , Macmillan announced that its entire Feedbooks (Europe and individually only. ( 2/11/2015) Roaring Brook Press, St. Martin’s Press, backlist will be available to libraries. ) , and Macmillan Higher Frontlist titles are not available. and Gardners (mostly UK) Education. Macmillan’s digital audio titles are (12/3/2015) available for library lending.

Simon & Schuster Ebooks and audio: Library lending terms: Library pricing: Available through: Consortium Access: Simon & Schuster is a division of CBS Currently: On November 20, 2014 , A one-year expiration Prices are generally more OverDrive, Bibliotheca Consortium licensing permitted for Corporation . Imprints include Simon & Simon & Schuster announced that it date on ebooks licensed than the cost to a consumer, Cloud Library, Baker & public libraries only. No provision for Schuster, Atria, , Gallery Books, would no longer require libraries to to libraries. but less than the hard cover Taylor Axis 360, Recorded licensing to academic libraries , and Scribner. The children’s offer a “Buy It Now” button in order to edition. Books, Odilo, Mackin individually or in consortia. Licensing division includes Aladdin , license its ebooks for library lending. On November 12, 2015 , Educational Resources, and to individual school libraries only. for Young Readers, Little Previously: On June 26, 2014 , Simon & Simon & Schuster Bibliocommons (2/26/2015) Simon, Margaret K. McElderry Books, Schuster announced that it is opening announced a pilot (12/3/2015) Simon & Schuster Books for Young access to its entire catalog both frontlist program with 550 titles Readers, Simon Pulse, and Simon Spotlight. and backlist to all libraries and library with a special two-year consortia but with the requirement of a license priced at 1.5 “Buy It Now” button. times the one-year price.

Digital audio titles are generally available.

Hachette Book Group Book Group is owned by Hachette Ebooks and audio: Library lending terms: Library pricing: Available through: Consortium Access: Livre, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary As of May 8, 2013, Hachette is making New ebooks will be Pricing is always at HBG’s OverDrive, Bibliotheca Consortium licensing determined by of Lagardère . The company has numerous its full catalog of ebooks available for released simultaneously sole discretion. HBG’s Cloud Library, Baker & HBG on a case-by-case basis using publishing groups but most of the ebooks library lending. with the print edition pricing is three times Taylor Axis 360, Odilo, criteria including number of libraries, and digital audiobooks produced by and sold for an hardcover. (3/9/2015) Mackin Educational size of population and circulation Hachette Digital are based primarily on Previously Hachette did not make its unlimited number of Resources, Follett, EBSCO, numbers. Public, academic, and books published by Grand Central front list ebooks available for library single-user-at-a-time OneClick Digital and school consortia can be considered. Publishing, Little, Brown & Company, lending, but its backlist up until circulations. Permabound. (3/9/2015) Orbit, , Little Brown For Young publication dates of April 2010 were (12/3/2015) Readers, FaithWords, and Center Street. accessible.

Digital audiobooks are widely available.

Last updated January 18, 2016, by Robert C. Maier