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The Case of the Internet Archive vs. Book Publishers
Information wants to be free. That observation, first made in 1984, anticipated the internet and the world to come. It cost nothing to digitally reproduce data and words, and so we have them in numbing abundance.
Information also wants to be expensive. The right information at the right time can save a life, make a fortune, topple a government. Good information takes time and effort and money to produce.
Before it turned brutally divisive, before it alarmed librarians, even before
Can PEN Preserve Intellectual Freedom?
Updated at 9:21 p.m. ET on August 7, 2023
In June 1953, at the height of the McCarthy era, while congressional investigators and private groups were hunting down “subversive” or merely “objectionable” books and authors in the name of national security, the American Library Association and the Association Book Publishers Council issued a manifesto called “The Freedom to Read.” The document defended free expression and denounced censorship and conformity in language whose clarity and force are startling today.
Group of book sellers, publishers file lawsuit in attempt to block Texas book ban over sexual content ratings
- A new Texas law is set to take effect on Sept. 1, 2023. The law will require stores to rate books they sell for sexual content.
- Book publishers and sellers fear that the law will ban classic books such as “Romeo and Juliet” and “Of Mice and Men” from public school classrooms in Texas.
- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott praised the measure, saying it “gets that trash out of our schools.”
A group of book sellers and publishers filed a federal
Publishers Clearing House legt „Dark Patterns“-Klage über 18,5 Millionen US-Dollar bei
Die Nachrichten
Publishers Clearing House, das Direktmarketingunternehmen, das durch Gewinnspiele Zeitschriftenabonnements verkauft, hat sich am Montag bereit erklärt, 18,5 Millionen US-Dollar zu zahlen, um eine Klage der Federal Trade Commission beizulegen, in der das Unternehmen beschuldigt wurde, Kunden mithilfe sogenannter Dark Patterns zum Bezahlen zu verleiten für Produkte oder die Herausgabe ihrer Daten.
Das Unternehmen habe Kunden durch falsche Andeutungen genötigt, dass ein Kauf die einzige Möglichkeit sei, an seinem beliebten Gewinnspiel teilzunehmen, oder dass dies ihre Gewinnchancen erhöhen würde,
Affinity Plus sammelt „Coins for a Cause“ zugunsten von Minnesota Food Banks – ECM Publishers
Affinity Plus sammelt „Coins for a Cause“ zugunsten von Lebensmittelbanken in MinnesotaECM-Verlage
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Publisher’s Platform: Infant Formula Cronobacter and Salmonella Outbreak: Ich habe noch Fragen
Ich habe es vielleicht übersehen, aber hat jemand Antworten auf diese grundlegenden Fragen erhalten? Frage 1: Hat die Tatsache, dass Cronobacter sakazakii nur in Minnesota meldepflichtig ist, angesichts des Beginns der Krankheiten Anfang September 2021 die Untersuchung behindert und die Ankündigung des Ausbruchs und den Rückruf verzögert?
… Read more Frage 2: Warum wurde bei (uns bekannten) Erkrankungen, die vom 6. September 2021 bis mindestens 18. Dezember 2021 auftraten, der erste Rückruf erst am 17. Februar 2022 und der erweiterte Rückruf am 28.
How Patrick Soon-Shiong Made His Fortune Before Buying the L.A. Times
Soon-Shiong’s friends told me about his compound in Brentwood. “I see it more as a campus,” Bacharach said. Everyone brought up the basketball court. “This court is the best court I’ve ever seen in my life,” Sandiford-Artest, who played in the N.B.A. for nineteen seasons, said. “It’s insane. It’s deep under the floor, and it’s a big, N.B.A.-sized court, with locker rooms and televisions. And bowling alleys. Just like a big N.B.A. practice facility, sixty to a hundred feet underground.”