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As we've noted before, many publishers have the crazy attitude that ebooks shouldn't be lent by libraries, and that it should be...

Copyright is sometimes described as a bargain between two parties: creators and their public. In return for receiving a government-backe...

It would be something of an understatement to say that the world of public libraries is undergoing rapid change at the moment. On the one...

Amidst the growing enthusiasm for digital texts -- ebooks and scans of illustrated books -- it's easy to overlook some important drawb...

Against the background of today's war on sharing, exemplified by SOPA and PIPA, traditional libraries underline an inconvenient truth:...

When the going gets tough, the tough...go to the library : Fewer people bought books, CD’s, and DVD’s in 2008 than in the year before. The n...

For some in the world of free software, libraries are things that you call, rather than visit. But the places where books are stored – espec...

This is a very bad precedent: the BPL [Boston Public Library] has launched a new service powered by a company called OverDrive. The system ...

Deep stuff this : To my mind, the simple idea is that the skills required to operate within networked media are new because no one does - or...

This sounds slightly worrying : After careful consideration, the Cushing/Whitney Medical and Kline Science Libraries have decided to end the...