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Library services are signing up en masse to offer e-book lending services. Windsor and Maidenhead announced the launch of its e-book service this week, with Bexley, Bromley, Kensington & Chelsea, Hampshire, Lewisham, Liverpool, Norfolk and Sutton all due to follow suit shortly.
Essex and Luton have been running e-book services for some time, and Richmond upon Thames also now offers a limited service. The libraries are working with US company Overdrive, which supplies e-book services to 8,000-plus libraries in North America and globally, and has been targeting the UK market strongly this year.
Using the Overdrive system, users download books from their library's website to read on a computer or hand-held device for a limited time period. Lancashire-based library supplier Askews is also preparing to offer e-book supply.