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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Science: Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library and a massive repository of online artifacts, has been collecting mementos of the ever-expanding World Wide Web for over two decades, allowing user… Continue reading A Copyright Lawsuit Threatens To Kill Free Access To Internet Archive’s Library of Books
Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: The BBC looks at a 100-year art projectin which famous authors write books that will not be published until the year 2113. An annual ceremony takes place near a forest of sapling trees which will be turned into paper … Continue reading A Library of Books No One Can Read For 100 Years
93-year-old Peter Higgs was awarded a Nobel Prize nine years ago after the Large Hadron Collider experiments finally confirmed of the existence Higgs boson particles he’d predicted back in 1964. “This discovery was a seminal moment in human culture,” s… Continue reading How the Higgs Boson Particle Ruined Peter Higgs’s Life
Music streaming giant Spotify has revealed that it’s intending to make a big splash in the audiobooks business. Trusted Reviews reports: At the company’s Investor Day 2022, CEO Daniel Ek revealed that the company would be branching out into audiobooks … Continue reading Spotify Ready To Take On Amazon In Audiobooks
Amazon will shut its Chinese ebook store next year, pulling a small but prominent business from a market where it’s failed to make major inroads against local rivals. From a report: The e-commerce giant will discontinue the Kindle eBook store on June 3… Continue reading Amazon To Shut China Kindle Store After Years-Long Struggle
“Comic book nerd Christmas has arrived,” quips Mashable, noting this is the big 20th anniversary of Free Comic Book Day. Basically if you walk into your local comic book store on the first Saturday in May: they’ll hand you some free comic books. Bleedi… Continue reading Free Comic Book Day Celebrates Big 20th Year with Many Geek-Friendly Titles
In a potential blow to all the apps and websites that have popped up alongside the Amazon Kindle to streamline the process of converting EPUB ebook files to the e-reader’s propriety file format, starting in “late 2022,” the Kindle Personal Documents Se… Continue reading Amazon Kindle E-Readers Will Now Make It Easier to Load EBooks You Didn’t Buy From Amazon
The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) is counteracting a ban on certain books by letting anyone in the US aged 13 to 21 apply for a digital library card. This gives teens and young adults, regardless of their location in the United States, access to the li… Continue reading Brooklyn Public Library is Offering Free Digital Library Cards To Young Adults in the US
Librarians say Holocaust deniers, antivaxxers, and other conspiracy theorists are being featured in the catalogs of a popular ebook lending service. From a report: In February, a group of librarians in Massachusetts identified a number of Holocaust den… Continue reading Ebook Services Are Bringing Unhinged Conspiracy Books into Public Libraries
CNN reports on “an ironic effect” of efforts to remove books from libraries in America. “The more certain books are singled out, the more people want to read them.”
And for some U.S. teenagers, “banned book clubs, recent book banning attempts have be… Continue reading Ironic Effect of Efforts to Ban Books: Teenagers Form New Book Clubs to Read Them