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Draconian U.S. copyright law is like Prohibition, turning the honest e-book-lovers into criminals. But could E life could improve in those respects under Barack Obama and Joseph Biden? I'm...

Doctor Who has been much on my mind lately, what with the new Matt Smith season starting up. (Next Saturday’s episode will be the one penned by master horror/fantasy wordsmith Neil...

HarperCollins’ US unit has just changed its long-standing ebook policy for library sales. Instead of selling ebooks for a one-time cost and allowing libraries to lend these ebooks in...

Given the scale of library cuts in the UK and elsewhere, and the anger generated by them, it's worth reaching back for a historical precedent that shows just how damaging cutbacks...

From The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem held a press conference today to launch the updated and expanded Einstein Archives website, at http://www.alberteinstein.info, containing a complete catalog of...

From The Public Domain Review.  Go to the site for the link to the audio file. Joyce made this recording in Paris at the HMV studios at the insistence of Sylvia Beach...

  What’s a stellar reading app for the Digital Public Library of America, which wants to pave the way for a national digital library system? Ideally this free app will make it Kindle-easy...

Sites just found via Librarians' Internet Index: The Year of Vonnegut in Indianapolis and From Verne to Vonnegut: A Century of Science Fiction. Related: A Kurt Vonnegut good-bye—and a pointer to...
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Even as a lover of e-books, I laughed at this hilarious video titled "Kindle killed the library book." It pokes fun at the mean-spirited U.K. politicians shutting down hundreds of brick-and-mortar local libraries. Props to actor-comic Tracey...

I'm baffled why Amazon readers are giving just three out of five stars to An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England. Not everyone will love the Guide's quirks, but...

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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.