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Last week we wrote about how Norway had come up with a way to provide online access to all books in Norwegian, including the most rece...

The Internet Archive is a jewel of the digital world:  On  Techdirt .

The current computer scene is notable for the role played by user-generated content (UGC): Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube etc. are all d...

Every year, some of the top ebook companies and organisations come together to offer extremely large numbers of ebooks, absolutely free (mos...

One of the many insights that have come out of open source is what might be called the "pebble on the cairn" effect - the idea tha...

One of the interesting results of the move to digital texts is a growing realisation that analogue books still have a role to play. Similar...

To my shame, I only discovered the wonderful LibriVox recently. Now it's passed a milestone in its short history: Well, we did it. We ...

There's a fascinating post over on 3pointD.com, which exhumes some screenshots of sims as they were three years ago, and contrasts them...

Oh dear, Larry's still having no luck rolling back US copyright law: In a move that's a blow to the U.S. movement to reform copyrig...

For some reason, the idea of open source film is one that exerts a strong fascination on people. I've written about it before , and her...

Some time back I wrote about the European Digital Library . But it seems that this isn't enough: now we have the European Archive , too...

...but I can't agree on this one. You write : Check out webcitation.org -- a project run at the University of Toronto. The basic idea i...

Net neutrality - the idea that the underlying technologies of the Internet should never care or even know about the details of who you are o...

This press release from the US National Archives raises a key issue for the digital age: the need for archives to act in a completely trans...