It took Amazon 96 days to grow the list of ebooks in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library to include over 100,000 titles.  As of this writing, there are now 100,002 ebook titles in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library.

When they started the program way back when on November 3, 2011, there were just a little over 5,000 ebooks in it.  So they have added almost 1,000 titles per day.  That is absolutely amazing. [Read more…]

A report released today by research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics, showed that 26.8 million tablets were sold globally in the fourth quarter of 2011.  That represents an increase of 150 percent over the 10.7 million tablets that were sold in the fourth quarter of the previous year.  The report does not include sales of dedicated ereaders like the Kindle in its sales numbers. [Read more…]

Public libraries currently treat ebooks just like they do physical books.  They purchase the number of copies of the ebooks they want from the OverDrive platform for a fixed price per copy.  Libraries then loan those ebooks out to patrons as many times as they want to, except for certain titles which disintegrate after 26 check outs.  Libraries also have to pay an annual platform fee to OverDrive to be able to use their system. [Read more…]

The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project published survey results today that every public library should be paying very close attention to. [Read more…]

OverDrive, the company that provides the ebook borrowing platform for most public libraries, today announced some stunning statistics on the growth of ebooks. [Read more…]