Huckleberry Finn is one of those books that keeps on landing on the banned book lists. At first it was protested because of the friendship between a white boy and a black boy. It was too progressive. Now it gets banned for the opposite reason. It is too old fashioned and uses terms that were … Read more
Today’s post comes from my other site Publetariat.com, a place for authors. ~ * ~ Similar to web searches, Google is trying to create an online searchable library through Google Books and the Google Library Project. Approximately 30 million books have been scanned. The only larger collection is the Library of Congress, which has 37 … Read more
Dutch public libraries have a copyright exemption for lending paper books. Recently the libraries have questioned if that copyright exemption also included eBooks. If so then the libraries would not have to get permission of the copyright holder to lend eBooks. A great benefit. Currently the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science has decided … Read more