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 ...

Amazon really wants you to pay $79 per year to become an Amazon Prime member. Initially that subscription fee only entitled customers to free 2-day shipping on all packages. But earlier this year the ...

Amazon keeps throwing the perks at its Amazon Prime subscription service. This go-round Amazon is adding a Kindle Owners' Lending Library to the mix just ahead of the Kindle Fire launch. For the ...

Today Amazon announced that Kindle owners will finally be able to read eBooks from their local libraries on the device. A similar service for eReaders compatible with ePUB books — Barnes & Noble Nook, ...

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 ...

Amazon is beta testing a new library page for all audiobooks, ebooks and print books on one page. Only certain people have been invited to get a sense of what the system is all about; everyone else ...

Amazon is tempting Kindle owners to sign up for its Prime service with free e-books, and if you are wondering if there are any good ones to read you can now peruse a list right from your PC. The ...

LOS ANGELES — Kindle e-reader and app users will be able to check out electronic books from more than 11,000 public libraries later this year, according to Amazon.com, the company that sells Kindle ...

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 ...

‘I hope that this…helps you build distributed systems at the same scale and the same reliability as Amazon and AWS,’ Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels says. A new Amazon Builders’ Library ...

Amazon, Scribd and Oyster now sell all-you-can-eat ebook subscriptions. But Personal Tech columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler found a free alternative with a much better digital selection: Your local public ...