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Amazon Publishing may shift their longstanding stance against allowing libraries to lend their ebooks. The company is said to be in “active discussions” with the Digital Public Library of America to alter its policies. Amazon is reportedly “testing a number of different models” and may lend books as early as 2021, with a spokesperson saying, “We believe libraries serve a critical purpose in communities across the country, and our priority is to make Amazon Publishing eBooks available in a way that ensures a viable model for authors, as well as library patrons.” Amazon is the large...

Good e-Reader Amazon has generally been reluctant to allow libraries to have access to its ebooks, preferring instead to make those available via its own Kindle ebook store. Public advocacy groups and libraries however have taken strong exception to this and are demanding easy availability of the Amazon titles via libraries to allow the public to have easy access to the information contained therein. Fortunately for book lovers, Amazon indicated it is deliberating licensing its digital titles to libraries though any concrete development on this is yet to be seen on the ground. The Hill howeve...

[12/09/20 - 11:00 AM] Amazon Studios to Team with Musician, Bestselling Author and Entrepreneur Jessica Simpson with New Multi-Media Rights Deal Premiering on Amazon Prime Video, the unscripted project is a raw and revealing multi-part docuseries that will include vivid and intimate, never-before-seen personal footage shot over the last decade and will explore the highs and lows of Simpson's life. [via press release from Amazon] AMAZON STUDIOS TO TEAM WITH MUSICIAN, BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND ENTREPRENEUR JESSICA SIMPSON WITH NEW MULTI-MEDIA RIGHTS DEAL CULVER CITY, Calif. - December 9, 2020 - Am...