Amazon.com has launched Kindle Textbook Rental -- a new program that enables university students to rent the textbooks they need for courses while realizing substantial savings off the list prices of ...

Amazon’s Kindle Periodicals program made subscription-based content, including electronic magazines and newspapers, available to readers. So, it was a great and profitable program for newspapers and ...

As reported earlier this year, Amazon and digital content distribution service OverDrive are teaming up to bring Kindle library lending to thousands of public libraries across the U.S. That ...

Amazon customers just got a whole new incentive to read, and Prime members just got an additional perk for joining. Today, Amazon’s traditional publishing arm Amazon Publishing announced a new program ...

With Kindle Scout, Amazon’s taking a 21st century approach to publishing, letting readers nominate which books progress to funding. It’s like your favorite reality TV show, except for books. Amazon ...

NEWTOWN -- With the help of a "very generous gift," Sandy Hook School hopes to buy another 10 Kindles for its fourth-graders to use. Yvonne Cech, the school's library media specialist, was not sure if ...

Gaston Jr/Sr High Principal Christine Collins tries out one of the school's new Kindles that will be checked out to juniors and seniors this fall. In lieu of replacing old and outdated language arts ...

In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more. by Todd Bishop on Aug 24, 2011 at 9:42 am August 24, 2011 at 9:46 ...

Amazon Kindle Amazon’s plans to create a subscription-based lending library of e-books on the Kindle is just, at this point, a rumor–but, despite the novelty of the idea, it’s already running into ...