During the test period, we will work closely with our library vendors who service this channel to evaluate the results and develop ongoing terms that will best support Tor’s authors, their agents, and Tor’s channel partners. Our current analysis on eLending indicates it is having a direct and adverse impact on retail eBook sales.Įffective with July 2018 publications, all new titles from Tor Books will become available for library eBook distribution four months after their retail on-sale date rather than the current program which allows libraries to purchase the titles on their retail on-sale date. Tor Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers and a leading global publisher of science fiction and fantasy will be changing our eBook lending model to libraries as part of a test program to determine the impact of eLending on retail sales. Here’s the statement, as reprinted by one of the Upper Arlington Public Library: Starting this month, ebooks would be delayed by as much as 40 months. Tor Books has just demonstrated that the decision makers at Macmillan are surprisingly ignorant on the basic principles of microeconomics in general.Įarlier this weeks Tor Books informed libraries that it was windowing library ebooks. Updated: Tor Books is Now Windowing Library eBooks

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