The New York Public Library has just released high-resolution versions of its massive collection of public domain images, all completely free of charge. Under the aegis of the library’s Public… Read more »

“Major players in the world of commercial scholarly publishing have little shame,” says Bryn Geffert, librarian at Amherst College and the man behind the new Amherst College Press. Fed up with… Read more »

The latest issue of The Baffler contains an article by Evgeny Morozov, “The Meme Hustler”, on Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media, which goes a long way in tracing the potentially dangerous semantics… Read more »