Another big publisher has decided that making ebooks available to libraries is worth doing: Simon & Schuster(s CBS) announced Thursday that it's making its full catalog of over 10,000 ebooks available for library lending. The decision follows a one-year pilot program in New York City.
New titles will be available at the time of publication. Each ebook is available for lending for a year before the library has to buy another copy. Simon & Schuster is working with the digital library distributors Baker & Taylor, 3M and Overdrive.
With Simon & Schuster's announcement, all of the Big Five publishers are making their ebooks available to libraries at least in some fashion; apparently, fears that library lending would cut into paid book sales haven't panned out.