Piracy, Saviour of the Book Industry (Forbes)
Piracy’s here. It’s staying. We can’t stop it. So we need to find inventive and attractive ways to work around it.
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eBook Fans Demand Print (GoodeReader)
In a turn of events that even the publisher didn’t see coming, fans of author Colleen Hoover’s work–calling themselves the CoHorts–launched a Twitter campaign, petition, and general ruckus to have one of the author’s works made available in print.
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Fair Use Is About Much More Than Remixing: It’s About Allowing All Kinds Of Innovation (Techdirt)
On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee held yet another hearing concerning copyright and possible copyright reform, this time, focusing on fair use.
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Not Just Environment & Health: The Canadian Government Attacks Libraries from 12 Ministries (Boing Boing)
In all, the Harper government has demolished the library collections of twelve ministries…
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Kindle Daily Deals: The Madonnas of Leningrad (and others)
