News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Proposed Tennessee Bill Threatens Librarians with Fines or Jail Time (I Love Libraries) Overdrive drops automatic hold checkout, offers “hold redelivery” (Overdrive) The Coronavirus… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Cervantes’ remains discovered in the crypt of a Madrid convent, 4 centuries after his death. (The Guardian) Rakuten to buy Overdrive for $410 million… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “Authors Guild Appeals Google Ruling” to the Second Circuit Court. (Publishers Weekly) “DOJ, States… Read more »
The biggest e-book story of the past few weeks has to be the growing reluctance of large publishers to allow libraries to lend their e-books. The ALA’s meetings with top publishers, while reportedly amicable, did so little to relieve publishers’ concerns that library lending of e-books will reduce e-book sales… Read more »
