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Bloomsbury is talking to "a number of UK publishers" about participation in its digital library initiative, Bloomsbury Library Online.
The system, now live in Essex, Southend, Thurrock, Poole, Falkirk and Edinburgh libraries, together with The British Library, offers access to books online only.
Each selection of titles, or "bookshelf", is available on annual subscription. Bloomsbury currently offers bookshelves with themes including Reading Groups, Teen Fiction and Children's History, and will shortly launch selections for Arden Shakespeare, Soldiers and Spies, Short Stories, Biography and Parenting.
Digital media director Stephanie Duncan said "The usual suspects, big and small, have all expressed an interest in joining, so Bloomsbury will act as an aggregator."
She added: "Our main objective is to support libraries and we actually believe it's a really good way to reach out to new readers."