The Internet Archive is starting to run out of legal options. Wired reports that the non-profit internet cataloguer of videos, games and books lost its appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The court rejected Archive.org’s claim in its ongoing lawsuit with several high... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-09-04 20:24:53 UTC ]
It’s a tale as old as time: a Brazilian writer sets her Kindle aside for a few weeks to work on her own novel, and when she goes back to get a little reading done, finds that the device has been infested with a horde of tiny white ants. “My virtual library had become a […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-08-04 13:07:23 UTC ]
The free provision of e-books for children by Oak National Academy has been branded a "wake up call" for a sector still awaiting its long-discussed shared website for all public libraries. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-21 04:54:52 UTC ]
Online classroom platform Oak National Academy is launching a new virtual library in partnership with the National Literacy Trust. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-17 12:35:54 UTC ]
Argentine writer Pablo Katchadjian could face jail for remixing Jorge Luis Borges’s story The Aleph – but his is a thoroughly Borgesian experimentIn the short story Pierre Menard: Author of Quixote, Jorge Luis Borges writes of an author’s quest to reproduce Cervantes’ masterpiece, word by word,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Getty Publications has introduced a virtual library that will provide free online access to more than 250 backlist titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Easy downloads and convenient storage are the chief lures of a virtual library, but ownership has some irritating downsides that require your attention before you hit the ebook purchase button. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]