Take that, Apple! Looking for any advantage it can get in the white-hot tablet wars, Amazon just debuted a digital-book lending library, which will only be available to owners of its Kindle and Kindle ...

Lending a Kindle Book to a family or friend has been pretty simple with the Kindle Lending Library, launched in 2011. However, the program was discontinued on January 4th, 2021. This 10-year-old ...

On the surface, Amazon's Lending Library, which begins today, sounds Netflix-esque: Pay a fee for unlimited digital borrowing access. But for people used to the all-you-can-eat goodness of Netflix, ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Sunrise Children’s Hospital is providing a new way for children, teens and adults to gain access to books inside of its building. Friday morning, the hospital had a ...

Amazon doesn’t want to kill local libraries, or at least that’s what its newest venture would seem to indicate. A new partnership with OverDrive, slated to launch later this year, will allow patrons ...

The nonprofit Internet Archive on Friday urged a federal appellate court to rule that digitizing books and then lending one ebook at a time online doesn't infringe copyright. Online lending “serves ...

Traditionally, you need a library card to access physical books and library facilities. But in today’s digital world, things have changed, as we all know. Today, we read e-books on e-readers, thus ...

For a growing number of Americans, reading is more than leafing through a physical book. Between 2011 and 2021, the share of Americans who listened to an audiobook more than doubled, from 11% to 23%, ...

Can libraries continue their role as lenders when books are in digital form? While library executives are set on the idea, at least some book publishers seem to still be wary of having libraries ...