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Dead-tree scanning just got significantly smaller. Gadget Lab and eBookNewser, among others, are carrying reports on the O-King, a new pocket-portable scanning device. It’s only 1.6 megapixels and has to have...

I never did hear from Virginia Democratic Senate candidate Harris Miller about his copyright policy. (I had hopes. Miller used to be a tech lobbyist.) By contrast, a staffer with rival James...

The ReDigi lawsuit took an intriguing turn yesterday. Google sent a letter to the judge in the EMI v. ReDigi case asking permission to file an amicus brief. Google says that...

In an initiative that other countries might well envy, Australia's Copyright Agency Creative Industries Career Fund has just announced its latest series of career development grants to "Australian writers, artists and...

No good. Barack Obama wants an RIAA-loved attorney and a second lawyer, a past defender of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, to get top Justice Department posts. Details...

Tarleton Gillespie, a visiting assistant professor at Cornell, gives a clueful overview of the copyright battles, including attacks on fair use. He accuses content providers of "welding the hood shut" and...

Association of American Publishers: Washington, DC, March 22, 2011 —Speaking on behalf of the publisher plaintiffs (The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.; Pearson Education, Inc; Penguin Group (USA) Inc.; Simon & Schuster,...

Dear Author has started a thread for authors so that they can post and talk about piracy and related issues. Jane says that some authors believe they need more of...

Details from BBC via Globalization Institute. Related: Economics of used books, from Cory Doctorow.

Writer Beware has an interesting post today linking to a Kickstarter for what WB’s Victoria Strauss calls “an app for copyright infringement.” The app is called “Story Surgeon,” is seeking $15,000,...

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Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...

TeleRead.com is now a static archival site, but we're very much alive at TeleRead.org. Big thanks to Nate Hoffelder of The-Digital-Reader.com, who teamed up on the preservation project with ReclaimHosting.com.