Playing catch-up with the Nook and the Sony Reader, Amazon says it will let customers borrow books from over 11,000 local libraries in the U.S. starting later this year. CNET contributor Don Reisinger ...

Amazon has generally been reluctant to allow libraries to have access to its ebooks, preferring instead to make those available via its own Kindle ebook store. Public advocacy groups and libraries ...

The Amazon Kindle Lending Library has just surpassed 300,000 titles, according to the company’s Q1 Financial Report. The service is an integral part of Amazon Prime, which allows users to borrow one ...

The biggest problem with borrowing eBooks instead of buying is the selection. My NH consortium has 2,124 fiction eBooks and 227 nonfiction eBooks. Of these, only 398 fiction books and 26 nonfiction ...