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The Internet Archive is fighting publishers over the right of lending digital books

TechSpot

The legal case over the Internet Archive's digital lending program enters a new stage as both parties request a summary judgment in a Manhattan court. The Internet Archive maintains that buying and scanning books gives it the right to lend them out within limits like many libraries do. The plaintiffs.

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What Is the Difference between Audiobooks and Digital Books?

Kitaboo

Audio and Digital books are the modern tech-savvy cousins of old hard-bound prints. On the one hand, digital books are becoming increasingly popular, thanks to platforms like KITABOO that make it a breeze to create and publish interactive digital books. So why have digital books become so popular? Let’s find out.

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The Internet Archive has ended its ‘emergency library’ early

The Verge

After four commercial publishers filed a lawsuit earlier this month, the Internet Archive ended its National Emergency Library program earlier than planned, the organization said in a blog post (via ArsTechnica ). It opened the “emergency” program in March , providing free access to 1.4

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Internet Archive Ends Free Ebook Program Early in Bid to Stave Off Dangerous Lawsuit

Gizmodo

Back in March, the Internet Archive launched its National Emergency Library , a program that made roughly 1.4 million books available to the public without the usual waitlists. But on Wednesday, the organization announced it was ending the program two weeks early after four major publishers decided to sue Internet

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Publishers Mad About Ebooks Again, Sue Internet Archive Over Free Library Program

Gizmodo

That’s why, in March, the Internet Archive began digitizing books and offering them for free without restrictions as part of its National Emergency Library program. With schools and libraries closed, essential sources of education and entertainment have been cut off.

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Go read about how Americans who depend on libraries for internet are coping with the pandemic

The Verge

Less than two-thirds of Americans in rural areas have broadband internet connections at their homes. In the town of Cherokee, Iowa, about 40 percent of school-aged kids have no internet access. Hahn has helped older patrons access the internet by shouting instructions through the building’s windows. “We It’s well worth a read.

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From book club to bootcamp: How these Seattle tech veterans took bold action on racial inclusion

GeekWire

They had monthly lunches and started a social justice book club to discuss the Black experience. They discovered HNG Internship , a Nigerian program that has provided free coding training for about 25,000 students in Nigeria and other African countries over the past four years. Students need only a laptop and internet connection.

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