You'll have to wait even longer to borrow some new e-books from the library

If you're a fan of checking out e-books from your local library — and you very much should be — you may have to wait longer for new releases from one major publisher that's angered the library industry. 

Publishing giant Macmillan will only allow libraries to purchase a single e-book copy of new releases and impose an eight-week embargo on buying additional copies starting Nov. 1, 2019, Publishers Weekly reports. 

The move follows a similar, controversial four-month embargo that Macmillan placed in July 2018 on new e-book releases from its sci-fi/fantasy imprint Tor. 

While known as a major publisher of educational books, Macmillan is also home to imprints like Henry Holt and Company and Farrar, Straus, Giroux, both of which have released a bevy of best-sellers and award-winners, including recent Pulitzer winners like Locking Up Our Own and Prairie Fires.  Read more...