Amazon isn't one to provide a lot of specific numbers on the products and services it offers, but it has confirmed today that its $79 a year Prime service recently crossed a fairly significant ...

Independent authors enrolled in KDP Select can reach more readers in Europe through the lending libraries, and earn money every time their book is borrowed KDP Select fund increased to $700,000 in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amazon announced Wednesday that Kindle users will soon be able to borrow e-books from their local libraries via the e-book reader and its related apps. The Kindle Lending Library will launch later ...

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 ...

NEW YORK - Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday that it is starting a lending library for Kindle owners, letting them borrow one electronic book per month. Borrowers have to subscribe to Amazon's Prime ...

"Nowhere else can customers borrow any of the seven Harry Potter books for free, with an unlimited supply of each title and no waiting list," said Russ Grandinetti, vice president, Kindle Content. "A ...