Oh, no. Now they're pirating comic books that are on paper. A big grassroots project is underway on Usenet to scan in the images from '50s hits. A lesson here...

One of our big gripes against Gemstar has been the troubled company's contempt for user-created material, whether in K-12 or elsewhere. Never mind teachers, librarians and others with their own...

"We've argued before that various eating establishments are better off offering free Wi-Fi to their customers than trying to squeeze the extra cash out of their pockets. Here's yet another...

"When Ruth Ann Hopps goes to Powell's Books in Portland, she sometimes lingers at the store for hours with a list in hand. After her October trip, she left with...

"The important thing, from my point of view, is that we don't repeat a Beta vs. VHS disaster. In the VCR field, consumers delayed their choices. Ultimately, if they wanted...

Editor's note: Amos Bokros, long active in TeleRead, lives in Florida and will soon enter teaching. He has a reading disability believed to be caused by a combination of dyslexia...

Turns out that John de Jong, a coauthor of the literacy report mentioned by the BBC, saw the TeleRead blog directly from his computer in Holland--without the BBC having forwarded...

The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism is the classic expose of media coverups. So TeleRead is reproducing nine chapters of Upton Sinclair's book--perhaps the first time that so...

"Children's interest in reading has more impact on their academic performance than their socio-economic group, research suggests. Young people from even the most deprived backgrounds could outshine their more affluent...

Last June certain bloggers dreaded the forthcoming debut of a copyright-oriented blog from the graduate J school at the University of California at Berkeley. Why let the establishment co-opt the...