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 ...

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 ...

Our online column Letters of the Law explores a wide range of legal issues that arise in libraries, with the help of a pair of leading authorities: Mary Minow, a librarian who became a lawyer; and ...

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 ...

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

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville's largest digital library is setting records. The Louisville Free Public Library said it topped 1 million digital books checked out online for a second year in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The library is now one of only 152 public libraries worldwide to surpass one million digital checkouts in a single year. FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno County is full of readers, and our local ...

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 ...