The pubic library
eBook self-distribution movement is gaining more
momentum:
The Digital Shift reports that California's Califa Group library consortium has increased the funding for its library eBook ownership program, similar to the
Douglas County, CO program, from
$30,000 to $325,000, thanks in part to a partnership with the
Kansas State
Library and an increased grant from the
California State Library. The
consortium is very close to striking a deal with
Smashwords that would
get 10,000 of the distributor's top titles into
Califa's network for about $3/title.
California's
Contra Costa County Library will be the pilot site for the
project.
Here are some additional details:
- Boopsie will provide mobile apps for the new
program.
- Califa will install an Adobe Content Server (configured by Quipu Group) to provide DRM protection for the eBooks. Califa paid $10K for
the Content Server plus $1,500 in annual maintenance.
- Califa is using VuFind, the same open-source web-based library
resource portal that Douglas County is using, to make its eBook
collection available to patrons.
- Smashwords will make its self-publishing service available to library
patrons through Califa's VuFind portal.
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