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 ...

Starting today, library patrons and Amazon e-book lovers have no reason to needle each other over which source of books is superior. Or at the very least, they have a comfortable meeting place where ...

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 ...

Young Kindle is getting a library card — at 11,000 libraries. Amazon announced Kindle Library Lending on Wednesday. The new feature, which launches later this year, will let Kindle customers borrow ...

Sometimes you need a book, but you don't necessarily want to buy it. That's what libraries were great for (remember those?). You could check out a book -- say, if you needed it for a research paper, ...

Amazon rarely announces it’s biggest endeavors while center stage. More often, the Seattle-based company quietly leaks announcements overnight, allowing tech publications across the globe to play ...

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 ...