Digital Lending, In Agreement

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Friday 24th May

Digital Lending, In Agreement

Posted at 8:44AM Monday 07 Jan 2013

Douglas County Library (DCL) system has announced that they acquired 10,000 ebook titles from the leading self- and independently-published e-book distributor, Smashwords. At an average of $4.00, this required an expenditure of $40,000 to purchase, not merely license, a large number of ebooks for the readers of Douglas County, nearly doubling the number of titles that DCL owns to 21,000. The deal was culminated through the legal equivalent of a sketch on a cocktail napkin, not a 330 page contract with multiple addenda.

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