Hi, Jim - It's budget request time for us here at Cromaine, so I was hoping you could tell me what my renewal costs would be for the Magazines and Unlimited Audiobook products we get through TLN. I'm also curious if you can provide a quote for the Newspapers product. Thank you so much! Glenn ---------- Glenn Fischer Technology Manager Hartland's Cromaine Library P.O. Box 308 3688 N. Hartland Rd. Hartland, MI 48353 810-632-5200 x110 www.cromaine.org On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 10:55 AM Jim Flury <jflury@tln.lib.mi.us> wrote:

All,

I am pleased to announce that The Library Network and Recorded Books have entered into an agreement for discounted pricing for *FIVE* Recorded Books/RBdigital products, including the *brand new Unlimited Newspapers* service, for Michigan public libraries.

The five services are:

*Magazines*

*Unlimited Audiobooks*

*Comics*

*Streaming Video*

*Brand New: Unlimited Newspapers* <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rbmediaglobal.com_all-2Dyou-2Dcan-2Dread-2Ddigital-2Dnewspapers-2Dnow-2Davailable-2Din-2Dthe-2Drbdigital-2Dapp-2Dand-2Dplatform_&d=DwMGaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=VZwzE-ihmVk8MWnuOKeBhdzjlCVxa_pma10LdYu6QtI&m=YmiTgMIhQdWlwIuNfKlyIgDlKVP_huBYz86uvvM1UmM&s=4IhhFpAWxNtRHsmPNzRGseHCJ_m2NeY0pa7_o2TARWY&e=> https://rbmediaglobal.com/all-you-can-read-digital-newspapers-now-available-... <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rbmediaglobal.com_all-2Dyou-2Dcan-2Dread-2Ddigital-2Dnewspapers-2Dnow-2Davailable-2Din-2Dthe-2Drbdigital-2Dapp-2Dand-2Dplatform_&d=DwQGaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=VZwzE-ihmVk8MWnuOKeBhdzjlCVxa_pma10LdYu6QtI&m=YmiTgMIhQdWlwIuNfKlyIgDlKVP_huBYz86uvvM1UmM&s=4IhhFpAWxNtRHsmPNzRGseHCJ_m2NeY0pa7_o2TARWY&e=> (including the Detroit News).

Library cooperative directors, please feel free to share this email with your member libraries.

It is highly recommended that librarians attend one of the offered *webinars*, as scheduled below. These webinars are intended to help library staff fully understand what is being offered, to be able to ask questions, and to hear questions from other libraries.

In addition to the below scheduled webinars, personalized webinars are available upon request for your library or your library cooperative.

*** At any of the Dates/Times below click on the below link to join the webinar:*

* <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.gotomeet.me_MarkHaley338&d=DwMGaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=VZwzE-ihmVk8MWnuOKeBhdzjlCVxa_pma10LdYu6QtI&m=YmiTgMIhQdWlwIuNfKlyIgDlKVP_huBYz86uvvM1UmM&s=b4-IfE_YLiE_jviSadthHhGIi_2mZ5ku80wHS9PKX_Q&e=>https://www.gotomeet.me/MarkHaley338 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.gotomeet.me_MarkHaley338&d=DwQGaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=VZwzE-ihmVk8MWnuOKeBhdzjlCVxa_pma10LdYu6QtI&m=YmiTgMIhQdWlwIuNfKlyIgDlKVP_huBYz86uvvM1UmM&s=b4-IfE_YLiE_jviSadthHhGIi_2mZ5ku80wHS9PKX_Q&e=>*

*Webinar Dates/Times:*

*Thursday 1/16 Tuesday 1/21 Thursday 1/23 Tuesday 1/28 Thursday 1/30 Tuesday 2/11 Thursday 2/13*

*2:00 PM ET 10:00 AM ET 2:00 PM ET 10:00 AM ET 2:00 PM ET 10:00 AM ET 2:00 PM ET*

*Tuesday 2/18 Thursday 2/20 Tuesday 3/3 Thursday 3/5 Tuesday 3/10*

*10:00 AM ET 2:00 PM ET 10:00 AM ET 2:00 PM ET 10:00 AM ET*

*Please contact me for a discounted price quote for any of the five below listed RBdigital products.*

The discounted pricing applies both to *new and existing *Recorded Books subscribers. This allows current subscribers to take advantage of potentially considerable savings at renewal time. Here are some salient points of information concerning each product:

*Magazines: *Access to the *ENTIRE *RBdigital collection of some* 3,800 **magazine titles*, compared to the current TLN collection of 175 active subscriptions, 327 total tiles, at *no cost increase* for current TLN subscribers. Also, libraries that are not part of the TLN magazine group can join the TLN magazine group at the TLN negotiated discount price, and also receive access to the 3,800 title collection. Special note for current, non-TLN magazine subscribing libraries: The Economist is the one RBdigital Magazines title that will not transfer from one collection to another. Thus, if your library currently receives its magazines via a direct relationship with Recorded Books, you will need to purchase a copy of The Economist if you wish to maintain access to that title as a member of the TLN magazine group.

*Unlimited Audiobooks: *Unlimited, simultaneous access to nearly 35,000 audiobook titles. 400+ new releases added every month. The collection value totals approximately $2,100.000.00 to start and an additional $20,000.00 in value added each month.

*Comics: *1,500 comic volumes from publishers *Disney, Marvel, Dark Horse and IDW*. Over 600,000 pages of eComics!

*Streaming Video: *7 day, unlimited checkout model for titles from Acorn TV, The Great Courses, Stingray Qello Concerts, and IndieFlix. Under the terms of the discounted price agreement, the annual platform fee for this service has been waived, the library only pays for use of the service, the 7-Day Unlimited Access Passes. $2.99 per patron per week.

*Unlimited Newspapers:* Unlimited access to over 2,500 newspapers, with 90 days of back issues, *including the Detroit News, *Chicago Tribune, New York Post, Los Angeles Times and many other newspapers from across the country. *Note*: Recorded Books is open to taking suggestions from us to share with its partner PressReader as to additional newspaper titles to include in this brand new service.

Orders, renewals and invoices will be handled through The Library Network. All subscriptions will follow a May 1 through April 30 renewal cycle. Current subscribers will be pro-rated so as to line up with the May 1 through April 30 renewal cycle.

*The series of webinars scheduled above by Recorded Books National (Major) Accounts Representative Mark Haley, are of critical importance when it comes to outlining the details of each of these five services. Library staff is strongly encouraged to sign up for one of these webinars on the day/time that is most convenient.*

The *deadline* to take advantage of this discounted price offer for any/all of these five Recorded Books product is:

*Friday, March 13, 2020*.

*Please contact me for a discounted price quote for any of the five above listed RBdigital products.*

Please let me know if you have questions concerning any of this.

Thanks.

Jim Flury

Jim Flury Technical Services Manager The Library Network 41365 Vincenti Court Novi, MI 48375 248-536-3100, ext 133 Fax 248-536-3098 jflury@tln.lib.mi.us