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How long have the digital and the analog been at war in libraries? Longer than you might expect. This lesson was driven home to me in a fun little movie I...

There’s an amusing article in the New Yorker about the quandary librarians face when it comes to deciding what should remain in their collections. Like a bookstore, a library has only...

Here is another 'pro' argument for the e-book camp: e-books don't smell. Obvious? Yes. But the physicality of paper books and the physical spaces which house them can be a surprisingly complex...

Dr. Carla Hayden, President Obama’s nominee to be the 14th Librarian of Congress, faced a Senate confirmation hearing on April 20 and seems to have passed with flying colors. Senators...

Digital Book World is carrying a press release in which Sony crows that it has entered into a partnership with Datalogics, Inc. to use Sony’s DADC e-book DRM. Sony developed this DRM...

It’s deja vu all over again. For the second time this year, a long-running e-book-related court case has ended with the Supreme Court declining to take a hand. With characteristic terseness,...

A new report from the Ohio Library Council, highlighted in the Columbus Dispatch, highlights the strength, and benefits, of public library usage in the Buckeye State. And judging by the data,...

It may still be a little unclear exactly how Kurt Vonnegut felt about e-books, but the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis is a great resource for finding out just about...
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A rather alarmist report in the Chronicle of Higher Education, entitled "Online Piracy of Academic Materials Extends to Scholarly Books," paints the threat to current academic publishing in very graphic terms....

America's favorite ebook and audiobook distributor OverDrive has announced its 2016 Digital Library Trends report ahead of its airing at the 2016 Public Library Association (PLA) Conference. And OverDrive predicts that: "public libraries'...

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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.