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The digital library dilemma: Why e-book borrowing costs taxpayers more

E-book lending surged during the pandemic and has continued to climb, but restrictive licensing rules mean libraries are ...
Digital Trends

Paper rules: Why borrowing an e-book from your library is so difficult

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 ...
The New Yorker

The Surprisingly Big Business of Library E-books

Steve Potash, the bearded and bespectacled president and C.E.O. of OverDrive, spent the second week of March, 2020, on a business trip to New York City. OverDrive distributes e-books and ...
Gizmodo

Internet Archive Faces Uphill Battle in Lawsuit Over Its Free Digital Library

The fate of a nonprofit online book library is in the hands of a judge after four book publishers filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement. Reading time 2 minutes A federal judge heard oral ...
The Denver Post

Rising popularity, cost of e-books forces some Colorado libraries to limit access

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... From the moment Betsy Hardi laces up her shoes in the morning to when she locks the door behind her at night, her ears are filled with stories The ...