So, all over the world right now, Monday is happening. Don’t look at us: we didn’t do it. Here’s some interesting tidbits to follow as we all get through this… 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 »

What’s the central threat to the domestic publishing industry? Is it overproduction? Is it Google Books? Is it the United States government’s consistent willingness to define consumer interest in a… Read more »

Donald Trump, the large ego-filled balloon currently outpolling his fellow 2016 Republican presidential candidates, is a big fan of books. Specifically, books coauthored by Donald Trump. Specifically, one particular book… Read more »

We’ve written about when book scanners go wrong on this blog, and we’ve also covered the controversy and lawsuits over Google’s decision to scan books. But somewhere in the midst… Read more »

In a case that echoes Google’s unauthorized scanning of millions of copyrighted works, the European Union Court of Justice has ruled that libraries in EU member states may digitize books… Read more »

The Authors Guild appeal against the dismissal of the Google Books lawsuit got a shot in the arm yesterday when a number of major authors and organizations came out in… Read more »

When the institutions that act as the repositories of record—the libraries that by law must receive one or multiple copies of every publication brought out in a certain country (a concept… Read more »

Yesterday, Google won the latest battle in its long, long legal war with the Author’s Guild, which accuses the tech giant of illegally making millions of books available for free… Read more »

Most avid readers would readily admit to having an obsessive side. A tech startup, Small Demons, aims to appeal to, nay manipulate, those literary obsessions, and the idea behind it… 1 / Read more »