(libraryjournal.com): As evidenced by the recent commotion over HarperCollins's revision of ebook licensing terms, libraries and publishers have yet to find a lending model amenable to all the players. Just before the torrent of reaction to that story, however, the Internet Archive (IA) quietly laid two pieces of what may be the foundation for a lending model that librarians, at least, will find more hospitable. As part of its online Open Library project, the IA announced last week a new collection of some 85,000 ebooks—including many in-copyright but out-of-print titles—for exclusive lending among a "virtual consortium" of 150 public and academic libraries.
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