The nonprofit “Internet Archive” has recently established a “National Emergency Library” that makes 1.4 million e-books, many of which are under copyright and still in print, available to the public… Read more »

Audiobooks are books that get recorded. There are exceptions to this statement (like audio originals), but stick with me here. Transcribing an audiobook, then, would simply create a text quite… Read more »

We’ve written about Carl Malamud and PRO (a charitable organization he founded to disseminate articles of public interest on the internet) several times over the last few years. Malamud’s been… Read more »

One of the hottest stories from last year was definitely November’s copyright infringement lawsuit, brought by photographer Justin Goldman. Doubtless you’ve all been all atwitter awaiting the verdict. Well, here it is: for The Verge, Adi Robertson reports… Read more »

There have been a lot of big-ticket talking points this election season. Too many of them seem to revolve around the construction of ginormous border walls or the size of some jerkoff landlord’s… Read more »

There is too much web content devoted to Martin Shkreli (aka “Pete Campbell’s awful grandson”). The hedge-fund-enfant-terrible turned pharma-oligarch, who became a household name after nakedly pursuing profits in a most unappealing fashion, somehow… Read more »

Last week, we wrote about ‘Books at Play’, Google’s new project with experimental publisher Visual Editions to create digital reading experiences in the form of “books that cannot be printed.”… Read more »

In November we wrote about the controversy regarding Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, which, while indisputably protected by copyright in the United States until at least 2047, might… Read more »

Are writers a sustainable political constituency capable of effecting, collectively, massive change? Wait, why are you laughing? It’s true that writers aren’t nearly as powerful a political force as large,… Read more »

For publishers, there are certain dates that can either cause terrible anxiety or tremendous excitement. When a world is opened up, or a secret kingdom closed down. When you reign… Read more »