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 ...

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, ...

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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 ...

As if ebooks weren’t ephemeral enough, today Amazon launched a lending library for Kindle owners, offering just over 5,000 titles—though none, the Wall Street Journal notes, from the 6 largest book ...

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 ...

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 ...

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%, ...