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Publishers Hate Libraries, But We Sort Of Knew That

06 Jan

Techdirt has an interesting article on ebooks called If Libraries Didn’t Exist, Would Publishers Be Trying To Kill Book Lending? The article is a reaction to an examination of major publisher attitudes to providing ebooks to libraries as published in…

 
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Publishers Hate Libraries, But We Sort Of Knew That

06 Jan

Techdirt has an interesting article on ebooks called If Libraries Didn’t Exist, Would Publishers Be Trying To Kill Book Lending? The article is a reaction to an examination of major publisher attitudes to providing ebooks to libraries as published in…

 
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Authors Guild Complains About Amazon’s Kindle Book Lending Program

15 Nov

If the Authors Guild hates libraries it hates electronic libraries even more. We know about the suit against the HathiTrust, which is the outgrowth of litigation against Google for scanning books without permission, assuming permission is necessary. No court has…

 
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Posted in Books, Digital Collections, Electronic Resource, Publishing Industry