Digital versus Digitized: On the Hachette v. Internet Archive Appeal Oral Argument
One thing that would dramatically clarify the controlled digital lending concept in general and the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit in particular is hav...
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RA21: A new effort to ease the user experience for off-campus access to licensed content
Earlier this year the STM Association -- a trade association for academic and professional publishers -- started a project called RA21: Resource Access in th...
Advancing Patron Privacy on Vendor Systems with a Shared Understanding
Last week I had the pleasure of presenting a short talk at the second virtual meeting of the NISO effort to reach a Consensus Framework to Support Patron Pr...
The Hourglass of a National E-Book Program
This weekend I was at the second "DPLAfest" for the Digital Public Library of America. For a while I was in the national e-book program track. Participants...
Thursday Threads: Research Works Act, Amazon Kindle Give and Take, OCLC’s Website for Small Libraries
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Thursday Threads: HarperCollins (again), Digital Public Library of America, Kindle Millionaires
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> Last week's DLTJ Thursday Threads theme of eboo...
Thursday Threads: Refining Data, Ebook Costs, Open Bibliographic Data, Copyright Infringement
UPDATE - 22 November 2010: The saga of Illadore (Monica Gaudio) and Cooks Source Magazine (Judith Griggs) draws to an end, with the closing of Cooks Source M...
The Role of the Library in the Future of Reading
A popular topic coming across my radar screen is the future of reading, and more specifically the role of libraries in the future of reading. Much of commen...