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Content / e-booksScribd Revises Its Subscription Model
Under the new plan, Scribd will limit users to three books and one audiobook per month, although a portion of the Scribd collection will still be open to unlimited reading.
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Content / e-books
Antitrust Experts Debate Apple’s Supreme Court Bid
A group of antitrust scholars gathered online at the Truth on the Market blog for a symposium titled: The Apple E-Books Antitrust Case: Implications for Antitrust Law and for the Economy.
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Libraries
Three Ways Publishers and Libraries Can Work Better Together
There's a lot of room for improvement in the relationship between publishers and libraries. Here's where to start.
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Content / e-books
Hoopla Announces Deal with Ingram
Officials at Hoopla say inclusion of Ingram's CoreSource titles will significantly broaden their catalog of more than 400,000 movies, TV shows, music albums, e-books, audiobooks and comics.
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Copyright
Authors Guild Gets Support in Google Case
Malcolm Gladwell and Ursula K. Le Guin, are among those supporting the Authors Guild’s bid to have the Supreme Court review its case against Google.
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Content / e-books
Judge Tosses Retailers’ Suit Against Apple, Publishers
Judge Denise has tossed a case filed by three defunct e-book retailers that claimed that the 2010 conspiracy among Apple and five publishers to fix e-book prices forced them out of business.
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Content / e-books
Apple Fires Back at DoJ
In a reply brief filed on January 15, Apple attorneys reiterated its argument that the Supreme Court should review their e-book price-fixing case.
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Shows & Events
Attendance Up at ALA Midwinter 2016
This year's show was attended by over 11,000 people, and featured appearances by Isaac Mizrahi, Cory Booker, and others.
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Libraries
The Next Big Step for E-Books in Libraries
E-Book lending is on the rise in libraries, but is the current market sustainable?
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Content / e-books
Post-Lawsuit, HC Publishing 'Julie of the Wolves' E-book
The announcement comes after a federal judge found, in 2014, that Open Road had infringed HarperCollins’ copyright by releasing an unauthorized e-book edition of the Newbery Medal-winning novel.
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Awards & Prizes
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Sally Mann Win 2016 ALA Carnegie Medals
Viet Thanh Nguyen's 'The Sympathizer' and Sally Mann's 'Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs,' landed the ALA's top adult book awards.
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Conferences
ALA 2016 Midwinter Meeting: Ken Burns Talks About the Creative Process
In a fascinating talk, Ken Burns, Terry Tempest Williams, and Mark Kurlansky delved deep into the creative process.
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Retailing
DOJ Urges Supreme Court to Deny Apple’s E-book Appeal
In an opposition brief filed on December 23, the U.S. Department of Justice urged the Supreme Court not to hear Apple’s appeal in the long-running e-book price-fixing case.
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Content / e-books
Authors Guild Petitions Supreme Court to Hear Google Case
Authors Guild executives say that the case represents an opportunity for the Supreme Court to clarify fair use for the digital age.
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Libraries
Why James Billington’s Retirement is a Wake-Up Call for Librarians
In quieter decades, the absence of charismatic, visionary library leaders might not have mattered. But in the Internet age, it is a self-inflicted wound.
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Content / e-books
Amicus Briefs Support Apple's Supreme Court Bid
In all, seven briefs have been filed in the case, at least five of which support Apple’s contention that the lower courts erred in finding Apple had conspired with publishers to fix e-book prices.
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Copyright
J.D. Salinger Copyright Suit is Dropped
The suit had accused the Salinger Literary Trust of “tortiously interfering” with the Devault-Graves Agency's attempts to license foreign editions of its book, 'J.D. Salinger: Three Early Stories.'
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Industry News
What Are Students Reading?: The Most Checked-Out School Library Books
Follett, distributor of technologies, services and digital and print content to the educational market, has created Follett Students’ Choice, a new tool that ranks the top 50 books with the most checkouts in a given month.
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Industry News
School & Library Spotlight: Hot Topics for School Libraries
Makerspaces, computer coding for kids, the Transform Your School Library initiative, and other topics that school librarians are buzzing about.
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Shows & Events
ALA Midwinter 2016 Spotlight
From Jan. 8–12, nearly 10,000 librarians will gather in Boston for the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting. Here's what you can expect, and the programming not to miss.
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