Wednesday News: HathiTrust wins against Author’s Guild, Kindle installment...
Fair Use Victory in HathiTrust Litigation – So this is the one about how the Author’s Guild sued the HathiTrust and lost. The HathiTrust — comprised of more than 80 academic and research institutions —...
View ArticleTuesday News: Olivier and Leigh’s love letters, from Wal-Mart to library,...
‘I woke raging with desire for you’, Laurence Olivier told Vivien Leigh in unseen letters – The letters between Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh are going public for the very first time, and I’m...
View ArticleThursday News: Reader manifesto, platonic love, Marie Antoinette, and the...
A manifesto for readers – You know, I’m all about a reader’s manifesto. Mine would probably be short, and it might be along the lines of ‘readers don’t owe anyone anything’ but this one is more, uh,...
View ArticleFriday News: Scrap poetry, tablets & readers, soundtracks, and love letters
EMILY DICKINSON’S SINGULAR SCRAP POETRY – A lovely meditation on Emily Dickinson’s habit of writing poems and pieces of poems on all sorts of paper items, including chocolate wrappers (genius). There...
View ArticleMonday News: B&N sales drop, revamping Oscar voting, menstruation manual for...
B&N Still Searching For ‘Magic Bullet’ to Stop Sales Slide – It’s hard not to feel sorry for Barnes & Noble; they’re like the anti-Midas, stumbling from one bad scheme to another. Compared to...
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