Kensington Publishing

OVERVIEW

Website: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/

Kensington is an independent publisher that put out ~290 eBook titles on OverDrive in the last year. Its website states:

The house of New York Times bestselling authors, including Fern Michaels, Lisa Jackson, Joanne Fluke, William W. Johnstone, and many others, Kensington publishes over 500 fiction and non-fiction titles each year. Its diverse imprints – Kensington Books, Zebra, Pinnacle, Dafina, Citadel Press and Lyrical Press – are well known for providing readers with a range of popular genres such as thrillers, romance, historical fiction, cozy mysteries and non-fiction, as well as true-crime, western, and commercial fiction titles.

  • eBooks: the standard eBook licenses allows one loan at a time and does not expire. At a price of $22.50, the unit cost is relatively low, although it exceeds the average retail cost of the print equivalent — $12.70. Because the titles do not expire, this is a better value than books from the Big Five. Libraries seeking to expand their genre fiction collections may wish to explore Kensington titles. RF Good Buy.

  • eAudio: Kensington does not publish in the eAudio format. Their eBook authors publish eAudio versions of their books with other publishers.

OVERDRIVE ADVANCED SEARCH

It is not always always possible to search OverDrive by publisher in a way that will capture all titles. The searches below should find the bulk of them.

  • eBooks: in the Publisher field, not the Publisher Account field, multi-select “Kensington Books”, “Citadel Press”, “Zebra Books”, “Pinnacle Books,” and “Lyrical Press”.

Last updated: 5/23/2022