Washington, D.C. - The American Library Association ( ALA ) Washington Office today sent a letter to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction ( PDF ), urging the bipartisan, 12-member panel to protect federal support for our nation's libraries in its soon-to-be-released deficit reduction package....

CHICAGO - The American Library Association-Allied Professional Association ( ALA - APA ) announced today that it invites colleges that offer Library Technical Assistant ( LTA ) degrees or certificates to participate in a project that may allow their graduates to receive Library Support Staff Certification ( LSSC ) without having to further demonstrate their skills and knowledge....

CHICAGO - The Association for Library Service to Children ( ALSC ), a division of the American Library Association, has added more informative and engaging websites to Great Web Sites for Kids ( www.ala.org/greatsites ), its online resource containing hundreds of links to exceptional websites for children....

A rumoured push by Amazon.com to create a Netflix Inc.-like service for digital books could change the way we consume the printed word, Dan Misener writes....

By offering discounts on products sold via the Web in the U.K., Groupon has moved close to competing directly with such giants as Amazon.com and EBay...

Groupon Inc. has begun offering discounts on products sold over the Web in the U.K., thrusting the Internet-coupon company into closer competition with the likes of Amazon.com Inc. and EBay Inc....

The American Library Association has always supported a parent's right to decide what his or her family should read....

Under the new measure, Amazon.com agreed to start collecting the tax in September 2012 unless there was federal legislation on the issue. ...

A survey of independent bookstores nationwide....

Book publishers have convinced the US Second Court of Appeals to issue a ruling that is grotesquely hostile to first sale doctrine and seriously makes one question what the hell they think they're going to accomplish. The case at hand is John Wiley & Sons Inc. v. Supap Kirtsaeng. If you understand all this stuff feel free to pause here and read that. For those who don't, let's start with the basics: "First Sale Doctrine" is an exemption first recognized about 100 years ago in the US to the limi...