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Is Google Scholar's TOS too restrictive for libraries? See the Digital Librarian blog.

Ryan T. Curry, author of earlier comments in favor of the Mao ad to raise money for the building pictured here, confirms that, yes, he indeed works for the Minneapolis Public...

The Gold Coast, the best-seller by Nelson DeMille, inspired by The Great Gatsby and set on modern Long Island, will be the topic of an audio chatcast tonight at 8 p.m....

In its phony freedom-of-speech campaign to raise money for the Minneapolis Public Library, a "buzz"-minded ad agency came up with a slick graphic noting that Mao was a librarian. See the...

Homer Hickam, Jr. from Coalwood, West Virginia, grew up to be both a NASA engineer and the author of the best-selling memoir Rocket Boys. Just how did it happen, and might...

Scads of people on the Net--not all but many--are learning to love blogs and distrust big newspapers. Minneapolis, where a sister-in-law of the mayor tried to do spin control on bloggers...

<img src="http://www.teleread.com/laptopkids.jpg" align="left" hspace="5" alt="Third World children with laptops"Who should be able to buy those $100 MIT laptop computers intended for the Third World? I fervently hope they make it to...

Jean Noel Jeanneney, president of France's National Library, fears that Google Print will favor U.S. books--the reason France wants a Euro library. Not enough Sartre, eh? A Google rep, surprise, disagrees....

Details from Librarian.net. And so soon after the fingerprint item in Wired News about possible DVD-related Big Brothery? Almost inevitably some e-book DRM zealots will go for the fingerprint approach. (Correction:...

Paperback sales are down, thanks to the baby boomers' fading eyes. Could e-books--with adjustable font sizes--be the ticket for consumers and libraries alike? Some publishers are enlarging the type used in...

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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.