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Library signs agreement with independent publishers

Posted: May 20th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: EQUACC News | Tags: , , , | 2 Comments »

May 19, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA) and the Douglas County Libraries (DCL) announce the May 18, 2011 signing of their historic agreement.

Key features of that agreement include:

  • CIPA agrees to facilitate the sale (not the rental) of ebooks to the library for checkout through the library. That is, the library owns and manages the files on its own servers.
  • DCL agrees to buy one copy for each simultaneous use of a title.
  • CIPA will encourage  its members sell books to the library at the lowest retail rate.
  • DCL agrees to catalog and attach Digital Rights Management to each uploaded title.
  • CIPA will offer their finest selections – including their CIPA EVVY Award winners – for this agreement.
  • DCL agrees not to resell or transfer the files purchased under this agreement.
  • CIPA members agree to sell their books to library patrons at the same price as paid by the library.
  • DCL agrees to offer a link to the purchase of CIPA member titles through the catalog.

At the signing were CIPA President Nancy Mills and DCL Director Jamie LaRue.

“It was a day of beginnings,” said Mills, “Many people made contributions to this partnership and many, many more will benefit.”

“Our patrons will appreciate gaining access to this rich new resource of literature,” said LaRue.

The technological infrastructure for the project – based on an integration of Adobe Content Server, the Open Source Vufind discovery tool, and the library catalog – is now complete. Some sample files have been uploaded already.

CIPA titles will be ready for checkout in June.

2 Comments on “Library signs agreement with independent publishers”

  1. 1 jlarue@jlarue.com said at 1:14 pm on May 23rd, 2011:

    Follow-up: I presented to the CIPA membership a couple days ago and found them (a) thrilled to have a library partnership, and (b) far more willing to experiment with new models than commercial publishers … or librarians. See my blog post here: http://laruesviews.blogspot.com/2011/05/june-2-2011-can-we-crowd-source.html
    about crowd-sourcing collection development. These independent authors loved the idea.

    I also talked to them about the next iteration of our agreement – working out a “second sale” right. Used ebooks need to be part of the emerging market, if authors want to find new readers.

  2. 2 Thursday Threads: Beyond MARC, Library-controlled DRM, Spam Study | Disruptive Library Technology Jester said at 9:05 pm on May 26th, 2011:

    [...] of these titles.- New e-book partnership, Douglas County LibrariesThere are more details on a post on the ALA Presidential Task Force on Equitable Access to Electronic Content blog along with an [...]

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