{"id":4440,"date":"2012-02-03T23:44:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T23:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butcherbaker.net\/wordpress\/?p=4440"},"modified":"2012-02-03T23:44:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T23:44:35","slug":"hooray-for-random-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/03\/hooray-for-random-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooray for Random House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/butcherbaker.net\/wordpress\/?p=4375\" title=\"Dear Amazon, Apple, B&#038;N...\">yesterday<\/a> that  lending is one of the critical issues to be solved if eBooks are to capture the youth audience in particular and larger audiences in general.<br \/>\nIt turns out that one of the Big Six publishers agrees, that being Random House. As Andrew Albanese notes in yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/digital\/content-and-e-books\/article\/50478-fair-trade-random-house-will-raise-library-e-book-prices-but-commits-to-e-book-lending.html\" title=\"Andrew Albanese: Publishers Weekly: Fair Trade: Random House Will Raise LIbrary E-book Prices, But Commits to E-book Lending\">Publishers Weekly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At a meeting with ALA leaders this week in New York, Random House officials said the \u201cterms of sale\u201d for Random House e-books to libraries will change, with a price increase coming. But the publisher reiterated its commitment to library e-book lending, saying they would continue to enable e-book lending of their entire list for both adult and children\u2019s titles, backlist and frontlist, without restriction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This policy contrasts with its Big Six rivals HarperCollins (which limits lends), Penguin (which restricts title availability, as does Hatchette) and Macmillan and Simon &#038; Schuster (which don&#8217;t allow lending at all).<br \/>\nEarly returns are that libraries are ok with the price increase in exchange for unrestricted access, since they already pay more for library versions of books (Albanese calls it a &#8220;fair trade&#8221;). The American Library Association, meanwhile, pegs the lending issue as topping its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/digital\/content-and-e-books\/article\/50328-as-ala-midwinter-closes-a-crucial-moment-looms-for-e-books.html\" title=\"ALA Midwinter Meeting discusses ebooks\">list of priorities<\/a>. Says ALA Executive Director Keith Fiels:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I still have people approach me and ask how libraries feel about e-books, and well, libraries can\u2019t get enough of them. Which is obviously where the big issue comes up, because you have some publishers that will not make e-books available to libraries. From a triage standpoint, this is a serious issue, and there\u2019s been a lot of interest expressed on part of ALA members that we take a strong stance on this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The good news is that publishers and the ALA are in talks to resolve these issues. I wish them well. Actually, I wish that all the other publishers would slavishly copy Random House. Props, Random House. 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