The trajectory of e-book usage in K–12 schools is well-known. Demand was ramping up in the mid- to late 2010s, then took off when Covid lockdowns necessitated a pivot to remote and hybrid learning.

Anthropic shredded millions of physical books to train its Claude AI model — and new documents suggest that it was well aware of just how bad it would look if anyone found out. The secret initiative, ...

Dimitris Economou returned this copy of Harry the Dirty Dog 36 years after his parents checked it out. Fairfax County Public Library Thirty-six years after it was checked out, a copy of Gene Zion’s ...

Staff at an Ohio library were shocked to discover a note alongside something else unexpected in an overdue book returned by a young girl. "I bit off more than I could chew by checking 11 books out," ...

It's been a tough year for public libraries. In March, President Trump issued an executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the only federal agency devoted to funding ...

As book retailers and distributors leverage artificial intelligence to offer interactive features, publishers are reckoning with the implications. Two prominent examples emerged last month: Amazon's ...

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Philly residents checked out all kinds of books from the Free Library this past year — but one twisty, time-jumping mystery drew the most readers. "James" by Percival Everett, the Pultizer-winning ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a Texas county’s removal of 17 books from its public libraries, leaving in place a lower court ruling that allowed the purge. The books ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court in a free speech case on Monday opted not to hear an appeal by a group of residents of a rural Texas county of a judicial decision allowing local ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The NYPL is offering unlimited e-book access for some of their best-of-the-year titles Jonathan Blanc The New York Public Library has ...