Google is offering over 300 digital kids' books for free, with the option to read and listen simultaneously for enhanced learning. Thousands of audiobook previews are available on YouTube, helping ...

In September, a federal appeals court dealt a major blow to the Internet Archive—one of the largest online repositories of free books, media, and software—in a copyright case with significant ...

E-books and digital audiobooks are usually more expensive when newly released or popular. For example, in March of 2005, the Library purchased a print copy of Alice Hoffman's “The Ice Queen ...

In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library. Publishers sued. Owning a book means something different now.

If I had to buy every book I read, I wouldn't be able to pay rent. Reading for free isn't hard; I'm always exchanging books with friends, scouring my neighborhood's little free libraries, and of ...

A federal judge sided in favor of the four leading publishers in the U.S. who sued the Internet Archive for scanning and lending out numerous digital copies of copyrighted books for free during ...

Lawsuit by GMG Editorial on Scribd Internet Archive expanded its digital library during the covid-19 pandemic by scanning books it had in its possession and releasing them to the public.

The digital book will be free to the public and was created by former Apple chief design officer Jony Ive's LoveFrom for the Archive. A version will also be available as an ebook on Apple Books.

The Archive maintains that allowing those books each to be borrowed by one user at a time and for limited periods for free like library books, a system it calls “controlled digital lending ...