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The Internet Archive, in conjunction with 150 libraries, has rolled out a new 80,000 e-book lending collection today on OpenLibrary.org. This means that library patrons with an OpenLibrary account can check out any of these e-books. The hope is that this effort will help libraries make the move to digital book lending. "As readers go digital, so are our libraries," says Brewster Kahle, founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive

Erik Christopher considers the model offered by Overdrive and the future of lending as seen by the Open Book Alliance's Peter Brantley.

A peice about e-book models offered to librarians by the United States' two largest e-book retailers, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.

Libraries and schools that lend Kindles to users might be interested in this new service from Amazon that just launched.