Ms. Sarah Felkar from West Vancouver compiles a monthly newsletter of Canadian library digital content news that is shared (among other sources) via the Canadian Urban Library Council. There is some overlap, not surprisingly, with other news sometimes shared here, but also interesting posts we in the USA may not typically see. Thanks, Sarah, and thanks, Ann Archer and Lisa Weaver for keeping RF informed!

The BC Libraries Cooperative Overdrive Collection (Library2go) has reached 1,000,000 circulations this year! This is a first for the collection and a sign of the great work that the Co-operative and their team are doing.

https://insights.overdrive.com/dashboards/9c73bd075b2c4533b3c89c312c90ee54

(The ebook collection is available to BC Libraries serving populations of under 100,000)

The Good eReader blog has published a summary of the library licencing terms for the Big 5 publishers

https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/big-5-publishers-digital-lending-and-purchase-models-for-public-libraries

And the Financial Post did a write-up on Kobo

https://business.financialpost.com/entrepreneur/fp-startups/how-e-reading-company-kobo-is-fighting-amazon-apple-and-google-for-your-time

· Good stats and an interview with the CEO

And summary sales trends for the US in September

https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/september-was-a-great-month-for-audiobooks-ebooks-and-print-sales

· Pretty standard for recent trends (audio continues to rise)

Advocacy

The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Macmillan’s embargo