Libraries to try buying e-books directly

Submitted by Blake on August 14, 2012 - 8:34am
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Public Libraries
Ebooks

Starting this fall, the 220-member library cooperative Califa Library Group will begin rolling out a $325,000 project with the goal of buying from the smaller publishing companies thousands of e-books that the libraries will own forever. San Francisco and most other libraries lease their collection through OverDrive, a digital distribution company.

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