Before Sarah Adler moved to Maryland last week, she used library cards from her Washington, DC, home and neighboring counties in Virginia and Maryland to read books online. The Libby app, a slick and ...

Nearly all of the ~100,000 electronic books available via the Ebook Central Academic Collection can be accessed in any of four ways: 1. Access directly from your browser. After identifying an Ebook ...

Much attention has been paid to library lending, the availability of ebook titles that public libraries can purchase, and the business models associated with ebook acquisition. When we consider school ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two weeks ago, the annual Book Expo America (BEA) conference hit New York City. A gathering of publishers, booksellers, librarians, authors, reviewers, and book bloggers, BEA is the CES or E3 of the ...

Reader Susan Erich seeks a bit of organization in her literature. She writes: I’ve downloaded hundreds of free ebooks in a variety of formats and I need help organizing them. Some, I guess, are meant ...

Amazon’s publishing arm has refused to sell digital books to libraries Amazon’s publishing arm has refused to sell digital books to libraries is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported ...

Internet domains for the popular Z-Library online eBook repository were seized early this morning by the U.S. Department of Justice, preventing easy access to the service. Z-Library is ranked in the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Fifty years ago, on July 4 1971, Michael S Hart typed the text of “The Declaration of Independence” into a ...