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From The Bookseller:

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is poised to announce an independent cross-trade review into e-book lending, which could potentially “break the deadlock” on the issue, The Bookseller has been told.

Last week Labour’s shadow culture minister Dan Jarvis called for “an effective and credible taskforce” to be created to explore e-book lending in libraries, to “consist of librarians, authors and publishers and be chaired by an independent expert”. His calls followed a meeting on library e-lending which took place on 3rd July between Little, Brown c.e.o. Ursula Mackenzie, Penguin c.e.o. Tom Weldon, Random House UK’s deputy chairman Ian Hudson and Publishers Association c.e.o. Richard Mollet, along with culture minister Ed Vaizey, Justin Tomlinson, the chairman of the All-party Parliamentary Committee on Libraries, and Jarvis himself.

This week a DCMS spokesman said Vaizey expected to make “a detailed announcement shortly” on the question of an independent review. The Bookseller understands Vaizey will announce such a review, to commence shortly.

More details in the article.

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