Penguin’s decision last week to sever its connection with OverDrive and halt e-book lending in US public libraries brought the discussion of how publishers should interact with libraries in the digital age front-and-centre on the first morning of O’Reilly’s Tools of Change Conference in New York.

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Penguin UK is now withholding the supply of its new e-book releases to its library suppliers in the UK, following the same decision taken by Penguin US earlier in the week.

Meanwhile, Penguin US has announced it will restore its supply of backlist titles for e-book lending to Amazon until the end of the year, while the retailer and...

Amazon has told US publishers that it will begin accepting digital files in the ePub format in the near future and will also allow users of its Kindle device to read ePub files.

Users of the Kindle have up to now only been able to use Amazon's own format, meaning they have been locked into buying e-books off the Amazon e-commerce...

Amazon.com has announced a new service allowing Kindle books to be borrowed from US libraries.

The internet retail giant has linked up with Overdrive, which provides digital content to 11,000 US libraries and educational institutions, to create the Kindle Library Lending service. When the service launches later this year, customers...