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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As if ebooks weren’t ephemeral enough, today Amazon launched a lending library for Kindle owners, offering just over 5,000 titles—though none, the Wall Street Journal notes, from the 6 largest book ...

Even though publishers are getting paid each time Amazon lends out one of their books, the new Kindle lending library remains controversial. The Authors Guild says Amazon has no right to lend books ...