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Did Taylor Swift need a publisher after all? (This week in books)

December 6, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, we have two polls running, first the 18th annual extravaganza Will You Ever Buy Mostly E-books. I’ll reveal those results early next week! We also have one on whether listening to audiobooks counts as reading, and here are the returns so far: Pretty close, but the “listening is listening” crowd […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Ben Mezrich, Cindy Lee, Internet Archive, Jeff Bezos, Kevin Kearney, Mason Currey, Sarah Bahr, Simon van Zuylen-Wood, Taylor Swift, Toni Morrison

The IA gets smacked down by the law…again (This week in books)

September 6, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Greetings from sizzling southern California, where I’m back at it after some late summer voyaging. Here are some of the links I spotted over the past few weeks. First up, the Internet Archive appealed a ruling that blocked its Free Digital Library, where it worked with libraries to make their collections available […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Alexandra Alter, Barnes & Noble, Dan Blank, Elizabeth Harris, Internet Archive, Ken Whyte, Matt Stone, NaNoWriMo, Trey Parker

The Blind Side was always bad (This week in books)

August 18, 2023 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! The blog is going to take an end-of-summer hiatus over the next few weeks and I’ll be back here after Labor Day. Also…………….. how is summer almost over?? I have very proudly never read/watched one of the paragons of white savior narratives The Blind Side, but some extremely distressing allegations emerged around […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Brando Skyhorse, Dave Zirin, Internet Archive, Janet Reid, Kathleen Schmidt, Michael Oher, Miranda Miller, Nature, Nir Eyal, Piracy, Pulitzer Prize, We Need Diverse Books

Internet Archive smacked down for its “library” (This week in books)

March 31, 2023 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! A federal judge ruled decisively against the Internet Archive’s so-called “National Emergency Library,” which made 1.4 million e-books available for free in the early days of the pandemic, as well as its supposed “controlled digital lending” (CDL) system where it loans out e-books on a one-to-one basis based on print copies held […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Brandon Sanderson, Gabrielle Zevin, Internet Archive, Kate McKean, Susan Orlean

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