With publishers and libraries at odds over e-book licensing’s long-term expense, hold times, and ethical concerns, a new platform called Briet is pursuing an open-access approach. Briet invites ...

CROFTON, MD ‒ Claire Holahan, 34, takes her toddler to the library once or twice a week for story time so she can play with other children and the library's toys. It's not until after bedtime that she ...

Major Publishers control the entire book market in the United States. Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan control approximately 80% of all trade books sold.

NEW YORK - Libraries have been lending e-books for longer than there's been a Kindle, but until recently, only a few devices worked with them. That's changed in the past few months with the arrival of ...

For more than a decade, the library e-book market in the U.S. has been a contentious balancing act, with librarians long complaining of high, unsustainable prices and license restrictions, and ...

The Seattle Public Library announced today that its collection of e-books is now available to Kindle users. Patrons of The Seattle Public Library who have Kindles now have access to more than 25,000 ...