E-book lending surged during the pandemic and has continued to climb, but restrictive licensing rules mean libraries are paying a steep price. The post The digital library dilemma: Why e-book ...

Major Publishers control the entire book market in the United States. Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan control approximately 80% of all trade books sold.

Nonprofit library technology cooperative OCLC—the company behind WorldCat, the world’s largest global catalog of library collections—has acquired CloudLibrary, a digital lending service platform ...