Amazon Publishing, DPLA Ink Deal to Lend E-books in Libraries - Publishers Weekly

 Today's trip into the Catosphere took Panzer to the Publishers Weekly site. With a lot of digging in the posts, our intrepid eternally curious kitty found a post about Amazon and libraries.

I will check it out.

According to the post by Andrew Albanese, as stated in a May 18 press release Amazon Publishing and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) platform have finally reached an agreement. Per the agreement, DPLA participating libraries will be allowed to lend 10,000 of Amazon Publishing's ebooks and audio books to their patrons. Patrons (and libraries) will need to use the SimplyE app to download the ebooks and audio books and read/listen to them.  Amazon Publishing is a separate entity from the Amazon platform indie authors  use to publish their books. The post includes numerous links to other information about Amazon and DPLA.

 

Panzer says, "Hmm ... This little kitty never heard of SimplyE. Guess we'll need to do some research so we can read Amazon Publishing books from the library."

Note: This is a medium length post. Bring a cup of tea and a muffin for today's reading selection. If you plan to follow the links included in the post, bring a thermos of tea, five muffins and two chocolate chip cookies (biscuits).

To read the post tootle over to Amazon Publishing and libraries