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Here's a pretty amazing story from Norway :  On Techdirt .

As Techdirt has noted , the main threat to artists is not piracy, but obscurity -- the fact that few know they are creating interesting s...

One of the beloved tropes of the copyright industries is that they are being destroyed by online piracy. Superficially, it's a plausi...

A couple of weeks ago the popular ebook portal Library.nu was shut down , apparently voluntarily, after a coalition of book publishers obt...

One of the things that I find fascinating about open source is the way it generates epiphenomena - things that don't really happen with ...

Perhaps the most neglected pioneer in computing is Ted Nelson , who came up with most of the ideas of hypertext and linking, but got sidetra...

Here's a short but poignant meditation on the centrality of sharing to the joy of books: Ultimately, I do not much care whether these bo...

Here's a poignant post about realising that book you have cradled within you for the last years not only will never get written, but doe...

One of those joining this blog in pointing out the power of pricing at zero is Chris Anderson. His next book is called simply "Free...

I'm in favour of fun as much as the next clown, but the new book Eccentric Cubicle from O'Reilly seems to be forgetting a key aspec...

Nice story in the New York Times about libraries choosing to go with the Open Content Alliance rather than that nice Mr. Google or Mr. Mic...

Great title: " The Googlization of Everything ." And open , too. (Via Open Access News .)

Hardly unexpected, but good news , anyway: "We want to assure our customers and partners that they can continue to rely on SCO products...

Now this is what I call a real distribution network: The London Book Project is a free book exchange on a massive scale. Using the London U...

This , surely, is what technology was invented for: Unsuggester takes "people who like this also like that" and turns it on its he...

Quite rightly, everyone raves about Wikipedia's million+ English-language articles as a monument of cumulative achievement. But in the...

You can tell its Bubble Time when people start companies based on permutations of other, already-successful concepts. Sites like eHub are ...

The site Institute for the Future of the Book is certainly pushing the concept of the book hard in an effort to explore the idea and relate...

Most of us think of open access as a great way of reading the latest research online, so there is an implicit assumption that open access is...

Books are lovely objects, but problematic in terms of their content - once they're published, you can't correct the errors easily. ...