As the e-reader and tablet wars heat up, Amazon.com Inc. is launching a digital-book lending library that will be available only to owners of its Kindle and Kindle Fire devices who are also ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Unofficial ebook libraries, where users share digital books between themselves, have flourished in a murky legal halfway house so far, but ...

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Internet retail giant Amazon.com on Thursday opened a lending library of digital books available free to owners of its popular Kindle electronic readers. Internet retail giant Amazon.com on Thursday ...

As more information has come to light about the Lending Library program Amazon launched last week, the tenor in the industry has shifted from puzzlement to anger. Although Amazon initially said it ...

LOS ANGELES — Kindle e-reader and app users will be able to check out electronic books from more than 11,000 public libraries later this year, according to Amazon.com, the company that sells Kindle ...

Amazon is tempting Kindle owners to sign up for its Prime service with free e-books, and if you are wondering if there are any good ones to read you can now peruse a list right from your PC. The ...

Amazon has generally been reluctant to allow libraries to have access to its ebooks, preferring instead to make those available via its own Kindle ebook store. Public advocacy groups and libraries ...

In recent years, libraries have been storing digital collections such as e-books and audiobooks. According to Fowler, the number of libraries offering digital content in both urban and rural areas has ...