[ad_1] Schools and libraries have been closed for months, but some kids aren’t going to get away with playing video games all summer. Kelly Passek — a middle school librarian in Montgomery County, Virginia — is sending out summer reading via drones. After using the quadcopters from Wing to get some home essentials, she realized […]
Category: books
Book publishers sue Internet Archive for allegedly enabling piracy
[ad_1] The plaintiffs argue that the IA has no legal rights to distribute the books, which it scans and uploads to its servers, via Open Library or the National Emergency Library. The plaintiffs go as far as charging the Archive with piracy. The lawsuit seeks a declaration that the IA is committing copyright infringement, injunctions […]
iHeart will turn podcasts into books starting with ‘Stuff You Should know’
[ad_1] Plenty of people listen to podcasts on their commute and during work, but iHeartMedia is hoping they can squeeze even more podcast consumption into their days — possibly before they nod off. The company partnered with Flatiron Books to create a series of titles based on popular podcasts. The first iHeart podcast to get […]
Wikipedia references now include book previews hosted by the Internet Archive
[ad_1] So far, 130,000 references have been linked to 50,000 digitized books that are hosted by the Archive. To see an example of the new digital referencing in action, you can head to the Wikipedia page for Martin Luther King, Jr. If you look at the reference for Adam Fairclough’s book To Redeem the Soul […]
Google search pays tribute to ‘Wizard of Oz’ with a dizzying Easter egg
[ad_1] The Easter egg is available in both desktop and mobile browsers, though you’ll definitely want to act fast if you want to see it without resorting to archives. It’s too soon to say if this is the start of a trend of movie-themed surprises, but we wouldn’t be surprised if this becomes the new […]
Spotify is getting its own TV mini-series
[ad_1] Spotify Untold, a book written by Jonas Leijonhufvud and Sven Carlsson, will be used as a source for the upcoming TV series by Yellow Bird UK, a studio owned by French media organization the Banijay Group. The book was released in March of 2019 but hasn’t had an English-language release yet; it details the […]
J.D. Salinger novels will finally be released as e-books
[ad_1] Don’t expect audiobook versions. Although Matt had considered them, his father didn’t like the thought of his books being adapted to other formats. This is part of a broader attempt to explore J.D. Salinger’s life in the nine years since his death, including the first public exhibition of his personal archives (due this fall […]