A PRESS RELEASE from eReolen.dk Negotiating on behalf of the Danish public libraries, Denmark’s Digital Library have finalised deals with the largest Danish publishers from the commercial e-book library lending platform, EBIB, to move the publishers’ titles from EBIB to the libraries’ platform eReolen - i.e. “the eShelf”. EBIB will then close its library business. Consequently, starting January 2015, the e-books from publishers such as Gyldendal, Rosinante & Co., Lindhardt & Ringhof, JP/Politiken and others. will be showcased and promoted via eReolen’s web site and apps. The publishers and the public libraries have already begun a collaboration designed to diversify the patrons’ usual frontloaded lending patterns and move focus away from the new releases and more towards the backlists. All Danish public libraries are expected to offer the new eReolen to their patrons. The deals have been restricted to 2015 in order to closely evaluate and adjust the new s...
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