PRH Extends (Again!) Its Story Time Temporary Permissions

Skip Dye, Senior Vice President, Library Sales and Digital Strategy for Penguin Random House (PRH), has announced that the publisher is “extending our Story Time Temp Permissions program to March 31, 2021. We are continuing to get requests as more and more libraries and schools have had to close do to the increase cases of Covid-19. Our hope in extending the program is to give some stability for educators, librarians and booksellers in knowing that they can still use our author’s books for story time. We have updated the webpage and the form to reflect the new extension of March 31, 2021.”

Full information is available here:

In short, 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.

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