PRH Extends its Storytime Permissions and Temporary Ebook Models

Penguin Random House has extended both its Story Time Temporary Permissions and temporary ebook models through to June 30, 2021, rather than just through March 31.

PRH-published ebooks and audiobooks are available in a 12-month term at 50% of the cost of the 24-month term option.

PRH-published ebooks and audiobooks are also available in a cost-per-circulation model at 10% of the cost of the 24-month term option.

These new models are offered in addition to PRH’s 24-month term for ebooks and One Copy/One User model for audiobooks.

Non-profit story tellers can use PRH titles virtually under an expanded agreement:

For Teachers, Educators, Librarians, Booksellers, and Other Qualified Individuals providing distance learning and read-aloud events:

• Story time or classroom read-aloud videos in which a Penguin Random House book is read aloud (including the reader showing pictures in the case of picture books) may be created and posted to closed educational platforms such as Google Classroom, Schoology, Edmodo, and Discovery Education, along with social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, in order to replicate the read-aloud book experience that would otherwise be available to teachers and educators in the classroom, librarians in the library, and booksellers in the bookstores. Other qualified individuals are included, as long as the reading is not for profit.

Full information is available here.

The extension comes in response to the resurgence of the COVID pandemic, with accompanying concerns about attendance during the academic year and patrons’ ability to visit libraries in person.

RF again thanks PRH for promoting libraries’ ability to foster literacy in this difficult time!