The Palace Project

What is the Palace Project?

• Palace Marketplace founded by Digital Public Library of America, a strategic partner of The Palace Project, is a non-profit ebook and audiobook marketplace developed in consultation with libraries, for libraries. The Palace app allows libraries to serve content from all of the major e-content vendors, including Palace Marketplace, which offers a diverse mix of titles from major publishers, dozens of independent publishers, and Amazon Publishing.

• The Palace Project is a library-centered suite of tools and services that will allow libraries to purchase, organize, and deliver ebooks and other digital content to their patrons quickly and easily while protecting patron privacy.

• The Palace Project includes a patron-facing app for accessing and reading ebooks, a circulation manager for libraries to manage the workflows and the patron experience, a marketplace to purchase new content for patron use, and a bookshelf of more than 15,000 open titles that are ready for access.

• The Palace Project  provides equitable access to digital knowledge, bolsters the direct relationship between libraries and patrons, and protects patron privacy by enabling libraries to serve content to patrons from all the major e-content providers.

• The Project Palace Project got its name in the book Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life, author Eric Klinenberg writes, "The library really is a palace. It bestows nobility on people who otherwise couldn't afford a shred of it." 

• The Palace Project  manages by a division of Lyrasis and a strategic partner of DPLA.  The Project has been generously funded by multiple private and public entities, including the Knight Foundation, Sloan Foundation, and IMLS.

Source: https://thepalaceproject.org/faq/