Penguin brings e-books back to libraries with distributor 3M

Penguin is working with digital distributor 3M to make e-books available to some libraries again — first through a previously announced pilot program with the New York and Brooklyn Public Libraries, and then through about 70 other libraries nationwide by the end of the year. 3M Cloud Library also does not work with nearly as many client libraries as competitor OverDrive, although the company is expanding. 3M Cloud Library has over 70 client libraries in the U.S., while OverDrive works with 19,000 libraries globally (I’m getting the U.S. number) — so it is less likely that a library near you offers e-books through 3M. Finally, 3M still does not support Kindle. It works with PCs, iOS, Nook and Android.