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Big Five Publishers and Lending Penguin --Random House and audio: Library lending terms: Library pricing: Available through: Owned by AG since 1998. Random House operates its own imprint Random House makes its complete frontlist and backlist available for All titles available under Varies, but is generally 3 to Overdrive, 3M Cloud Library, B&T Axis and many others such as Alfred A. Knopf, Ballantine, Bantam, Dell, Pantheon, library lending as well as digital audio titles. perpetual licensing. No loan 4 times list price 360, Ingram. and . Considered the largest trade publisher. limits or period of use limits. for the . Consortium licensing permitted. Merged with Penguin July 2013.

HarperCollins Publishers Ebooks and audio: Library lending terms: Library pricing: Available through: Owned by Rupert Murdoch’s Corporation. The firm’s groups HarperCollins offers its complete ebook and audio catalog for library License must be renewed after Varies, but generally not OverDrive, 3M Cloud Library, B&T Axis include Zondervan, HarperCollins General , HarperCollins Children’s lending. In February 2011 HarperCollins instituted a limit of 26 26 loans. more than the cost of 360. Book Group, and HarperCollins UK and Canadian, Australian and circulations after which the library must renew its license by buying the hardcover equivalent and publishing. HarperCollins has released more than 8,700 ebooks and 50 enchanced title again. often much less. Consortium licensing permitted. ebooks, according to its U.S. website.

Macmillan Ebooks and audio: Library lending terms: Library pricing: Available through: Owned by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, of Stuttgart, . Currently: On July 29, 2014 Macmillan announced that its entire frontlist All titles are available for a 2 Titles published less than 12 OverDrive, B&T Axis 360, and 3M Cloud American imprints include Farrar Straus and Giroux, Henry Holt & Company, and backlist will be available under its library lending program. year/52 lend period (whichever months ago: $60.00. Library. W.H. Freeman and Worth Publishers, , Bedford/St. Martin’s, Previously: On October 17, 2013 Macmillan announced that its entire comes first). Titles published 12 months , Roaring Brook Press, St. Martin’s Press, , and Macmillan backlist will be available to . Frontlist titles are not available. ago or more: $40.00. Consortium licensing permitted as of Higher Education. Macmillan’s digital audio titles are available for library lending. September 12, 2014.

Penguin Random House-- USA Ebooks and audio: Library lending terms: Library pricing: Available through: Penguin Group (USA) is an affiliate of -based Penguin Group which is a Currently: On September 25, 2013 OverDrive announced that it is once A one-year expiration date on Library pricing similar to OverDrive, 3M Cloud Library and B&T division of Pearson PLC. Among its imprints are Viking, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, again able to offer Penguin frontlist and backlist titles to libraries and ebooks licensed to libraries. what is offered to individual Axis 360 (9/25/13) The Penguin Press, , Dutton, , , consortia. (4/2/13) consumers. Pricing Gotham Books, Portfolio, , , Tarcher, Philomel, Previously: On March 27, 2013 Penguin announced that, as of April 2, it information not confirmed at Consortium licensing permitted. Grosset & Dunlap, Puffin, and Frederick Warne. will remove the six-month embargo on ebook titles licensed to libraries this time. (4/2/13) and instead offer titles immediately after they are released in the Merged with Random House in 2013. consumer market. Penguin had limited its ebooks and digital audio titles available for library lending in November 2011. It terminated its contract with OverDrive in February 2012, but Penguin titles already in a library’s catalog at that time should remain available. In 2012 Penguin tested an ebook Pilot program through 3M at the and Public Libraries. The titles were acquired for one year, with renewal terms; but were not be available to libraries until six months after initial publication.

Simon & Schuster Ebooks and audio: Library lending terms: Library pricing: Available through: Simon & Schuster is a division of CBS Corporation. Imprints include Simon & Currently: On June 26, 2014 Simon & Schuster announced that it is A one-year expiration date on Prices are generally more OverDrive, 3M Cloud Library and Baker & Schuster, Atria, , Gallery Books, , and Scribner. The opening access to its entire catalog both frontlist and backlist to all ebooks licensed to libraries. than the cost to a consumer, Taylor Axis 360. children’s division includes Aladdin , for Young libraries and library consortia. but less than the hard cover Readers, Little Simon, Margaret K. McElderry Books, Simon & Schuster Books Previously: On January 16, 2014 Simon & Schuster opened access to its Libraries are required to display . Consortium licensing permitted. for Young Readers, Simon Pulse, and Simon Spotlight. entire catalog to 15 large libraries and several consortia through a “Buy It Now” button to OverDrive expanding the pilot begun in April 2013 with the New York, permit patrons to purchase the Queens and Brooklyn Public Libraries. book and the library receives a share of the purchase price. Digital audio titles are generally available.

Hachette Book Group Ebooks and audio: Library lending terms: Library pricing: Available through: Book Group is owned by Hachette Livre, which is a wholly-owned As of May 8, 2013 Hachette is making its full catalog of ebooks available New ebooks will be released Initial price will be three 3M Cloud Library, OverDrive, Baker & subsidiary of Lagardère. The company has numerous publishing groups but most for library lending. simultaneously with the print times the primary physical Taylor Axis 360. of the ebooks and digital produced by Hachette Digital are based edition and sold for an book price. One year after primarily on books published by , Little, Brown & Previously Hachette did not make its front list ebooks available for unlimited number of single- publication, the license price Consortium licensing determined on a case- Company, Orbit, , Little Brown For Young Readers, FaithWords, and library lending, but its backlist up until publication dates of April 2010 user-at-a-time circulations. will drop to one and a half by-case basis by Hachette. Center Street. were accessible. times the primary book price. The primary book Digital audiobooks are widely available. price will be defined as the highest-price edition then in print. Last updated September 13,2014 by Robert C. Maier