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The Internet was and is a powerful tool for transforming how people interact with one another, and how we obtain access to information—including e-books. But as with any powerful tool, powerful...

Have you ever considered how the advent of digital technology has changed a simple thing like your birthday? It bemuses me every time my own special day comes around. I’ve hung out...

David touched on this a couple of days ago, but this Gizmodo piece from yesterday makes it worth bringing up again. The hassles that Nook owners in the UK are going...

We've covered our share of crazy intellectual property stories here at TeleRead over the years. So often they concern issues relevant for authors. And in today's age of 'everyone can be an author,' it is...

The latest eMarketer data on U.S. e-reader usage - already covered by Chris Meadows - provides some interesting perspective on those much-vaunted Association of American Publishers (AAP) figures showing a static...

Jonathan Taplin produced Mean Streets, Martin Scorsese’s first film, and has also worked with Bob Dylan and George Harrison. Prof. Taplin’s movies have won Oscar and Golden Globes nominations and been...

As I mentioned earlier, I’ve been doing more than a little digging into the works of historian, journalist, and futurist James Burke. Lately, I’ve come across some more recent predictions of...

The Walt Disney Company has had a toxic relationship with the U.S. political process at least as far back as the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act, a.k.a. the Mickey Mouse Protection...

Everyone's favorite knowledge-hoarder, Reed Elsevier, has apparently had a very good 2015, based on its latest financial results. Trading since February 2015 under the new monicker REXL Group, Reed Elsevier reported...

A couple of months ago, Joanna took a look at the lawsuit against Star Trek: Axanar, a Star Trek “fan film” that had raised over a million dollars via a Kickstarter...

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Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...

TeleRead.com is now a static archival site, but we're very much alive at TeleRead.org. Big thanks to Nate Hoffelder of The-Digital-Reader.com, who teamed up on the preservation project with ReclaimHosting.com.