1. NAPLE E-Book Working Group Meeting The Hague 2016
Natascha Reip (Officer for Political Communication) Country updates on e-lending: Germany
NAPLE E-Book Working Group Meeting The Hague 2016

2. 3 Aggregators in Germany
Divibib GmbH:
2015: participation of public libraries of professionally run libraries
2015: 15 Mio. loans
2015: media units (e-books, audiobooks, music and videos)
2016: participation of 2 missing big publishing houses reached
Holtzbrinck: Droemer Knaur, Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt and
Bonnier (Piper, Ullstein, Carlsen)
4/30/2019
German Library Association

3. 3 Aggregators in Germany
Ciando eBooks
OverDrive Inc.
4/30/2019
German Library Association

4. E-lending legal framework: Developments
2013 coalition agreement: „Wir werden prüfen, ob den öffentlichen Bibliotheken gesetzlich das Recht eingeräumt werden sollte, elektronische Bücher zu lizensieren.“ No concrete action
2015: political party „DIE LINKE“ introduced a motion into the German Bundestag
2016: federal government approved to extend fixed book price law to e-books
4/30/2019
German Library Association

5. Thank you!
Natascha Reip