Macmillan is making some ebooks available to libraries for the first time. But the company’s two-year pilot program is limited: It only includes 1,200 older titles in the crime and mystery genres. Read more »
Califa, California’s largest library network, is about to strike an ebook deal with self-publishing site Smashwords. The partnership would bring about 10,000 self-published ebooks into California’s libraries. Read more »
Media Source, the company behind review publications like Library Journal, School Library Journal and Horn Book, has launched a subscription-based site, BookVerdict.com, that aggregates over 300,000 reviews from its publications. Read more »
Random House is now the only big six publisher to allow unrestricted access to all of its e-books in libraries — and it said yesterday it w… Read more »
If you’ve ever wondered how certain books wind up on library shelves, or how your children’s school librarian chooses which books to buy, th… Read more »
Romance is hot: It generated $1.36 billion in book sales in 2009, making up 13.2 percent of the consumer book market–the largest share of a… Read more »
