MOUNTAIN VIEW, California -- Google is giving 2 million books in its digital library a chance to be reincarnated as paperbacks. As part of a deal announced Thursday, Google is opening up part of its ...

Major publishers are giving Big Tech free rein to watch what you read and where, including books on sensitive topics, like if you check out a book on self care after an abortion. Worse, tech and ...

E-book lending surged during the pandemic and has continued to climb, but restrictive licensing rules mean libraries are paying a steep price. The post The digital library dilemma: Why e-book ...

Libraries worldwide broke digital lending records last year as Overdrive, the company that operates Libby and Sora, recently reported seeing more than 739 million borrows of audiobooks, e-books and ...

At a recent speaking engagement, I was asked, “Why do we need libraries if we can just download books for free?” Simply put, libraries don’t get books for free but loan them to patrons for free. It ...

E-readers were supposed to replace shelves, and bookstores were meant to disappear like relics of a bygone era. Yet here we ...

Books work like keys. Some unlock doors quickly, while others open vaults slowly over time. As a business owner writing a book, there’s a tough choice to make: Do you provide your audience with a ...

For twenty years, literature consumption practices have undergone a total conversion. Readers can now avoid carrying bulky hardcovers and postpone paperback wait times – e-books have established ...