Simon & Schuster to Launch Ebook Program With New York City Public Libraries [UPDATED]

Simon & Schuster, among the slowest publishing houses to sell its ebooks to libraries, has finally launched a one-year pilot program making the digital titles available to New York City’s public libraries.

The New York, Brooklyn and Queens public libraries will have access to bestsellers like “The Great Gatsby,” “Lonesome Dove” and “Steve Jobs,” starting April 30, the company said in a press release on Monday.

The latter example there, Walter Isaacson’s blockbuster biography of the late Apple boss, perfectly illustrates the snail’s pace at which Simon & Schuster’s relationship with public libraries has adapted to the digital age.

Simon & Schuster has remained the only of the Big Six publishers to not make its ebooks available to libraries.

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