Is Google a publisher? A study it commissioned says yes A new advocacy paper by a prominent First Amendment scholar argues that Google is a publisher, and as such, its search results are free to favor some sites and block others,… 1 / Read more »
3 Questions for IPG president Mark Suchomel about surviving the Amazon boycott As a MobyLives report detailed yesterday, Amazon.com has ended its boycott of ebooks from the more than 500 independent publishers distributed by the Independent Publishers Group (IPG) by finally coming… Read more »
VIDEO: David Graeber on The Julian Assange Show Just a day before his extradition case will be decided before the British Supreme Court, Julian Assange debuted a new episode of his TV show. His guests: a number of… Read more »
SLIDE SHOW: Ten best cake heads of the Leveson Inquiry Oh, gleeful gleeful. What could possibly make the Murdoch comeuppance even sweeter? Cakes, I say, cakes! Miss Cakehead at Eat Your Heart Out, purveyors of deliciously bad-taste cakes, furnishes us… Read more »
File Under: Librarians, Parachutes When you think of “freefall” and “libraries” these days, skydiving is not what usually comes to mind. However, putting paid once and for all to stereotypes about librarians and their… Read more »
Calvin Trilling’s 50 years of reporting The book that blew Ben Marcus’ brain FL libraries lift ban on Fifty Shades of Grey The English language: the world’s most awesome mess… Read more »