Program will offer free access to thousands of books, but only to owners of Kindle devices (sorry apps users) who also have an Amazon Prime membership. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET ...

People in the US are now able to borrow Kindle e-books from more than 11,000 local libraries there, Amazon said on Wednesday. The system allows people visiting their local library's website to choose ...

Amazon’s Kindle Lending Library–which allows Amazon Prime customers to “borrow” one free e-book at a time from a selection of more than 5,000–may have been warmly received by Kindle users when it was ...

If the iPad “owns” the tablet category, Amazon’s Kindle device arguably controls the e-reader sector. In a move that may both aid the Kindle brand as well as e-reading in general, the Seattle-based ...

Later this month Amazon will open its Kindle Owners’ Lending Library to customers in the UK, Germany, and France. That’s Amazon’s program that lets Amazon prime subscribers borrow up to one book a ...

Amazon has announced plans to offer a "Christmas bonus" to self-publishing authors who sign up to the company's lending library scheme. Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) allows authors to release their ...

On the surface, Amazon's Lending Library, which begins today, sounds Netflix-esque: Pay a fee for unlimited digital borrowing access. But for people used to the all-you-can-eat goodness of Netflix, ...

Amazon Kindle offers a wide range of options starting from books, novels, and other reading resources. This feature is often overlooked by a reader, especially with various available choices. However, ...

As part of its insidious plan to force you to read more, Amazon has announced that the Kindle will soon allow owners to download books from over 11,000 libraries, which are those buildings where ...

It’s been a long time in the making, but Amazon Publishing finally has some big news to share: the traditional arm of Amazon’s company will work with Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to put ...