With publishers and libraries at odds over e-book licensing’s long-term expense, hold times, and ethical concerns, a new platform called Briet is pursuing an open-access approach. Briet invites ...

NEW YORK — Libraries have been lending e-books for longer than there's been a Kindle, but until recently only a few devices worked with them. That's changed in the past few months with the arrival of ...

Proposed legislation would pressure publishers to adjust borrowing limits and find other ways to widen access. By Erik Ofgang It’s hard to imagine a library that doesn’t carry “Fahrenheit 451.” But ...