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New op-ed from Public Knowledge in MIT Technology Review:

"This decision harms libraries. It locks them into an e-book ecosystem designed to extract as much money as possible while harvesting (and reselling) reader data en masse."

Why a ruling against the Internet Archive threatens the future of America’s libraries: technologyreview.com/2024/09/1

11 September at 13:20 | Open on mastodon.archive.org
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rastilin

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The idea of "lending" ebooks was always a bit strange. Especially as "Print on Demand" is becoming cheaper.

11 September at 13:55 | Open on aus.social
naturaldynamics

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i guess we need to organise some multinational agreement on preserving and making available the history of the voices of our times, remember when geocities shut down, same with stumbleupon, there was a wealth of cultural insights, a sociological university course and an anthropological treasure, and we need more perspectives, esp when it relates to the culture wars...

11 September at 18:17 | Open on mastodon.world
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