First Reads gets you early access to new books across popular genres. Prime members get free Kindle e-books every month from a list hand-picked by editors.

Amazon First Reads is a monthly program in which eight editor-selected books are offered free to Prime members. Members are allowed to choose one book per month, which is then added to their library.

Two Amazon initiatives that were once seen as major disruptions to business-as-usual practices are being discontinued. PW has learned that the company is ending its print textbook rental program, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University students have the opportunity to save up to 30 percent - or $6 million - a year on textbooks thanks to a new and unique collaboration with Amazon. Purdue and ...

It’s a very frustrating part of the college experience. You pay more than $100 for a textbook, haul it home and then never open it. You turn it in at the end of the semester and get a pittance back.

Amazon will now let you ask your Kindle books about themselves. The new feature, named “Ask this Book”, uses artificial intelligence to answer questions that people might have as they read. If someone ...