Overdrive Inc.

OverDrive announced today that booksellers, libraries, and schools in its global network will soon have access to DRM-free eBook titles from O’Reilly Media.

Amazon today announced Kindle Library Lending, a new feature launching later this year that will allow Kindle customers to borrow Kindle books from over 11,000 libraries in the United States.

Cheryl Goodman, Qualcomm: Of the 80 or so tablets announced, almost none of them had a content strategy and just connecting to the web isn’t a strategy.

At every stage of the extraordinary surge in the use of e-books over the past few years, issues have emerged that send all concerned into a swivet.

In the first significant revision to lending terms for ebook circulation, HarperCollins has announced that new titles licensed from library ebook vendors will be able to circulate only 26 times before the license expires.

iPad users now have another means for downloading e-books—and free e-books at that. With access to more than 13,000 public, school and college libraries worldwide, digital distribution services provider OverDrive's free Media Console app enables users to wirelessly download and read EPUB-format e-books and MP3 audiobooks from local libraries on the Apple tablet.

(Press Release) SAN DIEGO and NEW YORK, November 17, 2010—Bloomsbury USA, a division of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., and RoyaltyShare, Inc., a leading provider of digital revenue management and reporting solutions, today announced that Bloomsbury has selected RoyaltyShare's Digital Advantage for eBooks as its solution for processing and managing eBook transactions and revenue information.

RoyaltyShare, Inc. today announced the launch of Sales Feed Price Validation, an important enhancement to its industry leading Digital Advantage for eBooks™ platform.

Sony today announced the inaugural list of 30 participating libraries in the Reader Library Program.

It's difficult to imagine that the International Digital Publishing Forum's (IDPF) Digital Book 2010 could ever be compared to Woodstock; but, in fact, this year's sold-out event had a few sessions that were so crowded that dozens of people sat on the floor in the back of the room so as not to be in the way of the standing-room only crowd lining the room's back wall. Michael Smith, IDPF's executive director, joked that it looked like Woodstock.