Two days after French president Nicolas Sarkozy — as a Reuters story reports — “pledged nearly $1.1 billion … toward the computer scanning of French literary works, audiovisual archives and… Read more »
Three major American library associations have asked the U.S. Justice Department “to oversee Google’s plans to create a massive digital library to prevent an excessively high price for institutional subscriptions,”… Read more »
Finally: much hullabaloo is being made of the fact that, at an “ebook summit” staged by Mediabistro, someone said what MobyLives has been saying since we started, which is that… 2 / Read more »
“Google is facing a fresh hurdle to its digital books project as a Chinese court prepares to hear a case brought against the US internet company by a Chinese novelist… Read more »
Think it’s ok to let that library book linger on the to-be-read pile? Not so terrible you accidentally shelved it with your own books? Got it in the backseat of… Read more »
Milorad Pavic, the Serbian writer “whose novels upended the traditional relationship between reader and text, taking the form of dictionaries, crossword puzzles and much else,” has died in Belgrade from… Read more »
C. D. B. Bryan, whose 1976 book Friendly Fire about a family’s attempt to prove that their son was killed in the Vietnam war by errant fire from his fellow… Read more »
Did a bad review kill John Keats? As a Wikipedia bio of the great poet observes, his friends were so certain of it that they defied his wish for his… 2 / Read more »
