#InternetArchive#DigitalLending#eBooks#BookPublishing#Copyright#IP#Rentism#Feudalism: "Supporting the archive could be seen as a denial of the unstable financial position of people in the book world and the hard, sincere work of the people who make and sell the books. But the suggestion by the four publishers that offering expensive and complex licensing deals to libraries is the only solution for more income and a better situation for authors, is incorrect.
There’s a hidden income that the authors do not profit from: by participating in the systems that publishers and distribution platforms offer the readers also pay by giving access to their data. This is not a source of revenue generation that authors have an interest in preserving. Furthermore, there is little evidence that library lending has a negative effect on book sales. Expensive licensing deals, the proposal put forward by representatives of the Big Four publishers, mean that libraries will have to offer fewer e-books to their readers, which in turn means fewer readers, which is not benefiting authors. Finally, the licensing structures are a vehicle for censoring and retracting books. In 2022, Wiley withdrew thirteen hundred academic e-books from libraries right at the beginning of the academic year, forcing students to buy the expensive books they needed for their studies."
#eBooks#Publishing#Libraries#DigitalLibraries#DigitalLending#Copyright#Privacy: "Today, Public Knowledge joined Center for Democracy and Technology and the Library Freedom Project in filing an amicus brief supporting Internet Archive in the case of Hachette v. Internet Archive. The brief, which was written by the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that controlled digital lending – or CDL – furthers the goal of the copyright act by protecting reader privacy."
Statement from Brewster Kahle, founder and digital librarian of the Internet Archive: We submitted our appeal to the court today to protect the core mission of libraries—preservation and access. This is a fight to keep library books available for those seeking truth in the digital age.
Libraries are not just repositories of books; they are guardians of history and the published record. In this time of wars, election angst, and unstable moments for democracy, this fight gains even more importance."