Odilo Allows Libraries to Sell eBooks

By Dianna Dilworth 

unnamedLibrary eBook distribution services firm Odilo has unveiled OdiloPlace a digital content marketplace.

OdiloPlace launches with more than 60,000 title from publishers including: Diversion Books, Encyclopedia Britannica, HarperCollins Publishers,Macmillan, Open Road Media, Simon & Schuster, among others. Librarians can shop the platform to purchase eBook licenses for their libraries.

Here are more details from the press release: “Titles from HarperCollins Publishers are available for 26 lends, and can be renewed afterwards. Titles from Macmillan are available to libraries for two years or 52 lends (whichever comes first). Titles from Simon & Schuster are available for one year. All other titles are available on a perpetual one-user, one-copy license.”