No More New Penguin Digital Audiobooks For Libraries, Either

Hoping to skirt Penguin’s library e-book restrictions by checking out a hot new title as a digital audiobook instead? Sorry, that strategy will no longer work as Penguin changed its library policies again today.

Digital Shift has the message that OverDrive, which distributes e-books to libraries, sent to its library partners today:

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This change does not affect any Penguin audiobook titles currently in your library’s catalog. Your library will be able to purchase additional copies of titles released before 11/14/2011. However, titles released after this date and new releases will not be available, per instruction from the publisher.

The latest restrictions come about two months after Penguin announced that it would no longer offer any new e-books through libraries. (At the time of that announcement, Penguin also cut off library lending on Kindle; it has since restored Kindle library lending.) The cut-off date for new e-books and digital audiobooks is the same. …

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