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Big Five Publishers and Library Lending

Penguin — USA Ebooks and audio : Library lending terms: Library pricing: Available through: Consortium Access: Penguin Group (USA) is an affiliate of -based Currently: On September 25, 2013, OverDrive A one-year expiration date on Library pricing similar to what is OverDrive, Bibliotheca Cloud Consortium licensing permitted for public, Penguin Group, which is a division of Pearson PLC. announced that it is once again able to offer Penguin ebooks licensed to libraries. offered to individual consumers. Library, B&T Axis 360, Follett, academic and school libraries. Among its imprints are Viking, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, The frontlist and backlist titles to libraries and consortia. (4/2/2013) Pricing information not confirmed at MyiLibrary/Proquest, Recorded (3/3/2015) Penguin Press, , Dutton, , Previously: On March 27, 2013 , Penguin announced this time. (4/2/2013) Books, MackinVia. , Gotham Books, Portfolio, New American that, as of April 2, it will remove the six-month Library, , Tarcher, Philomel, Grosset & Dunlap, embargo on ebook titles licensed to libraries and Note: EBSCO, Permabound, Puffin, and Frederick Warne. instead offer titles immediately after they are Odilo, and Bibliocommons to be released in the consumer market. Penguin had limited added in January 2016. Merged with Random House in 2013. its ebooks and digital audio titles available for library (11/18/2015) 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.

Penguin Random House —Random House Ebooks and audio: Library lending terms: Library pricing: Available through : Consortium Access: Owned by AG since 1998. Random House Random House makes its complete frontlist and All titles available under Varies, but is generally three to four Overdrive, Bibliotheca Cloud Consortium licensing permitted for public, operates its own imprint and many others such as Alfred backlist available for library lending as well as digital perpetual licensing. No loan times hardcover list price for the Library, B&T Axis 360 , academic and school libraries. A. Knopf, Ballantine, Bantam, Dell, Pantheon, and audio titles. limits or period of use limits. ebook. MyiLibrary/Proquest, EBSCO, (3/3/2015) . Considered the largest trade book publisher. Permabound, Odilo, Bibliocommons, Follett, Recorded Merged with Penguin July 2013. Books, MackinVia, (11/18/2015)

HarperCollins Publishers Ebooks and audio: Library lending terms: Library pricing: Available through : Consortium Access: Owned by Rupert Murdoch’s Corporation . The HarperCollins offers its complete ebook and audio License must be renewed after Varies, but generally not more than Overdrive, Bibliotheca Cloud Consortium licensing permitted for public, firm’s groups include Zondervan, catalog for library lending. In February 2011 26 loans. the cost of hardcover equivalent and Library, B&T, Bolinda, academic and school libraries. HarperCollins General Books, HarperCollins Children’s HarperCollins instituted a limit of 26 circulations often much less. Booksource, Feedbooks, Gardners, (4/14/2015) Book Group, and HarperCollins UK and Canadian, after which the library must renew its license by Mackin, Odilo, One-Click Digital, Australian, and New Zealand publishing. HarperCollins buying the title again. and Perma-bound. has released more than 8,700 ebooks and 50 enhanced (11/20/2015) ebooks, according to its US website.

Macmillan Ebooks and audio : Library lending terms: Library pricing: Available through: Consortium Access: Owned by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck , of Currently: On July 29, 2014 , Macmillan announced All titles are available for a 2 Titles published less than 12 months OverDrive, B&T Axis 360, Consortium licensing permitted as of September Stuttgart, Germany. American imprints include Farrar that its entire frontlist and backlist will be available year/52 lend period ago: $60.00. Bibliotheca Cloud Library, 12, 2014 . Public and academic libraries may license Straus and Giroux, Henry Holt & Company, W.H. under its library lending program. (whichever comes first). Titles published 12 months ago or Recorded Books (One Click individually or through consortia. School libraries Freeman and Worth Publishers, , Previously: On October 17, 2013 , Macmillan more: $40.00. Digital), Odilo, may license individually only. ( 2/11/2015) Bedford/St. Martin’s, , Roaring Brook Press, St. announced that its entire backlist will be available to Feedbooks (Europe and Canada) Martin’s Press, , and Macmillan Higher libraries. Frontlist titles are not available. and Gardners (mostly UK) Education. Macmillan’s digital audio titles are available for (11/20/2015) library lending.

Simon & Schuster Ebooks and audio: Library lending terms: Library pricing: Available through: Consortium Access: Simon & Schuster is a division of CBS Corporation . Currently: On November 20, 2014 , Simon & A one-year expiration date on Prices are generally more than the OverDrive, Bibliotheca Cloud Consortium licensing permitted for public libraries Imprints include Simon & Schuster, Atria, , Schuster announced that it would no longer require ebooks licensed to libraries. cost to a consumer, but less than the Library, Baker & Taylor Axis 360, only. No provision for licensing to academic Gallery Books, , and Scribner. The libraries to offer a “Buy It Now” button in order to hardcover edition. Recorded Books, Odilo, and libraries individually or in consortia. Licensing to children’s division includes , license its ebooks for library lending. On November 12, 2015 , Bibliocommons individual school libraries only. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Little Simon, Previously: On June 26, 2014 , Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster announced (11/20/2015) (2/26/2015) Margaret K. McElderry Books, Simon & Schuster Books announced that it is opening access to its entire a pilot program with 550 titles for Young Readers, Simon Pulse, and Simon Spotlight. catalog both frontlist and backlist to all libraries and with a special two-year library consortia but with the requirement of a “Buy license priced at 1.5 times the It Now” button. one-year price.

Digital audio titles are generally available.

Hachette Book Group Ebooks and audio: Library lending terms: Library pricing: Available through: Consortium Access: Book Group is owned by Hachette Livre, which As of May 8, 2013, Hachette is making its full New ebooks will be released Pricing is always at HBG’s sole OverDrive, Bibliotheca Cloud Consortium licensing determined by HBG on a is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardère . The company catalog of ebooks available for library lending. simultaneously with the print discretion. HBG’s pricing is three Library, Baker & Taylor Axis 360, case-by-case basis using criteria including number has numerous publishing groups but most of the ebooks edition and sold for an times hardcover. (3/9/2015) Odilo, Mackin, Follett, EBSCO, of libraries, size of population and circulation and digital audiobooks produced by Hachette Digital are Previously Hachette did not make its frontlist ebooks unlimited number of single- OneClick Digital and numbers. Public, academic and school consortia based primarily on books published by Grand Central available for library lending, but its backlist up until user-at-a-time circulations. Permabound. can be considered. (3/9/2015) Publishing, Little, Brown & Company, Orbit, Yen Press, publication dates of April 2010 were accessible. (11/20/2015) Little Brown for Young Readers, FaithWords, and Center Street. Digital audiobooks are widely available.

Last updated November 20, 2015, by Robert C. Maier