Library eBook Projects: Publishers who sell to libraries

This is a list of publishers with whom we at Califa/CCCL have purchased from, as well as additional publisher contacts with whom other libraries have worked. If you have a publisher you want to have added, email me. If you ARE a publisher, and you want your details added, let me know. Thanks!

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ABDO
Actrace
Akashik
Booktrope
Book View Cafe
BQB Publishing
Britannica
CJ Lyons
Cool Gus
Crossroads
Dzanc
F+W Media
Henery Press
Independent Publishers Group: Publishers included in IPG are listed on their site.
Infobase
Information Today
Jukepop Serials
Namelos
National Highlights
New Harbinger
Permanent Press
Poisoned Pen Press
Raw Dog Screaming Press
Roman & Littlefield
SheWrites Press
Smashwords
University of California Press
Workman
Xist

What the What?

In case you didn't know, ebooks are a big deal in libraries right now. A lot of publishers won't sell to library consortia (which is how many libraries are able to afford to buy ebooks), others limit circulations of an ebook, and raise their prices.

In addition, the way that the ebooks are accessed, the platform, is something that, in most cases, the library doesn't have any ownership over. Plus, with many vendors from whom libraries buy ebooks, if they stop paying their platform fees, they lose the content they bought for it.

Libraries pay huge platform fees, and then pay huge markup pricing for bestseller titles, which they will lose the rights to if they stop paying the platform fees.

To a lot of us (me included) this seems crazy. Many groups are experimenting to try to change the model, or look at alternatives. Working directly with publishers, negotiating statewide contracts, etc.

This is the place to keep up with the different projects, and see what experimental projects are happening.

Library eBook Projects

Publishers who sell to libraries

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