On July 25, Macmillan Publishers radically changed its policy for library ebook lending. The most drastic component of this change is an embargo on new titles for eight weeks after the acquisition of ...

There are currently 342 potential borrowers waiting for 197 digital copies of Ronan Farrow’s investigative thriller Catch and Kill at the Los Angeles Public Library. “It’ll take months for that ebook ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. Digital materials hit record-breaking levels of popularity at ...

One of the roles I fulfill as a reference librarian at RPL is I select for acquisition digital audiobooks for our collection. I appreciate playing a part in 21st century online library connectivity.

A new report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project finds that 12% of readers of ebooks borrowed an ebook from their libraries in the past year, and a majority of ...

San Antonio Public Library partners with MakeMake to offer over 800 Spanish-language eBooks for children and teens.

Image Gallery:A walk around the Bluefire Reader application on the iPad. Public library books and those I purchased through the Sony eBookstore with my old Sony Readers use the Adobe Digital Editions ...

Looking to read e-books, audiobooks and more? Richmond Public Library's Ginter Park branch will host an informative session ...

While I love my Amazon Kindle, one thing that’s always bugged me about it is that you can’t borrow library ebooks on it, as you can with other ereaders like the Kobo and Sony Reader. So I was excited ...

Libraries, like other consumers, should be free to buy any published e-content at competitive prices, to keep these items in their collection, and to loan them to their patrons. Anything less violates ...

Reports of the death of the printed word have only been somewhat exaggerated, and Denver Public Library is feeling the consequences. All around the country, the digital upheaval of the publishing ...