Amazon Publishing is the world's fifth-largest supplier of ebooks, but as of late 2019, also refuses to license them to public libraries (in any country). Hachette Book Group makes some of its books available for library eLending in the United States and Canada, but refuses to do so within Commonwealth countries such as the UK, Australia and New Zealand. In 2018, Penguin Random House announced that all of its books would be available only on two year licences, after which they would also be deleted from collections. Since 2011, HarperCollins has allowed libraries to lend out its ebooks just 26 times before the licence expires and the book is deleted from its collection.
As a result, publishers get to decide the terms on which libraries can access books for elending. However, acquiring and lending ebooks involves the making of copies and transmissions, which means copyright laws need to be complied with. Libraries have always been able to acquire and lend physical books without requiring any special permission from publishers. Į-book lending is different from physical book lending. Overdrive is the only eLending service that works with the Amazon Kindle, but that functionality is limited to U.S. Many of those libraries use Rakuten OverDrive, which provides ebook access to about 43,000 libraries and schools in 76 countries. It works around the digital rights management built into online-store-published e-books by limiting access to a purchased e-book file to the borrower, resulting in loss of access to the file by the purchaser for the duration of the borrowing period.Īs of 2014, over 90% of U.S. E-book lending or elending is a practice in which access to already-purchased downloads or online reads of e-books is made available on a time-limited basis to others.
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