LONDON – A treatise on a stuffed hippopotamus, an 18th-century English primer for Danish sailors and a description of the first engine-driven submarine are among 250,000 books to be made available ...

A major effort to digitize millions of books and other documents at libraries is beginning across Canada. Canadian research libraries have formed a digitization alliance called Alouette Canada to get ...

Between all the wireless tablets, giant televisions and sleek smartphones dominating this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, one unassuming little gadget caught the eyes of many a frugal book lover.

Software giant Microsoft Corp. said Friday it has signed a deal to scan 100,000 books from the British Library and put them online. In entering the digital book market, Microsoft is taking a page from ...