Library cardholders from across the Merrimack Valley Library Consortium recently surpassed 2 million checkouts of e-books and other digital resources — a major milestone for the 36-member library ...

The way people choose to get lost in a book is changing, and it’s costing public libraries and the local governments that fund them a lot of money. Fewer readers are toting around their latest ...

Welcome to today’s online chat about the benefits and drawbacks of electronic textbooks. In what ways are digital textbooks more effective learning tools than their print counterparts? Conversely, ...

Bookstores at 10 colleges across the country will begin selling access to digital textbooks this month in what promoters say is the first large-scale effort to make electronic textbooks available ...

If the e-book app on your phone or tablet is overflowing and full of outdated files, use these tools to tidy it up. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer has been reading e-books on gadgets since 2005 ...

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 ...

From the year after PW’s 125th anniversary issue, 1998—the year when the first handheld e-readers came out, the first library lending of e-books was launched, and e-books first got ISBNs—to today’s ...