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It’s deja vu all over again. For the second time this year, a long-running e-book-related court case has ended with the Supreme Court declining to take a hand. With characteristic terseness,...

The dream of reselling used e-books may not be dead just yet. Digital media resale startup ReDigi has reached a settlement in its four-year-old legal battle with Capital Records that will...

I do most of my e-book shopping on Amazon, and via my public library. But sometimes, I come across new books via author blogs and press releases. Pinterest has been a convenient...

After only generating a few dozen comments for most of the three-month comment period, the government’s DMCA Safe Harbor consultation suddenly attracted public attention in a big way after “Nostalgia Critic”...

At the end of December, I mentioned that the government is seeking input on how it should update the exemption request process for the right to crack DRM under the DMCA. But what I hadn’t noticed was at the same time, the government also posted a request for comments on another section of the DMCA...

Springer Nature, the Macmillan-owned research, educational and professional publisher, has announced the expansion of a trial content sharing program based on the famous scientific journal Nature. According to the statement, "Springer...

According to a pre-publication copy of the Federal Register seen by Library Journal, the U.S. Copyright Office is scheduling "two two-day public roundtables on DMCA safe harbor issues in New York, New...

How could a great modern (and modernist) novel from the British Isles become a local cult hit and a contemporary classic, yet languish unread and unknown in most Western countries? The answer...

What's more deadly, more carnivorous, than Hannibal Lecter? Well, online piracy, of course. At least, if Martha De Laurentiis, producer of Hannibal for NBC among many other series and media properties,...

Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly has a report on the Authors Guild filing its final reply brief (PDF) in the attempt to gain certiorari for its ten-year-old lawsuit over Google Books....

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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.