law Bill from Missouri's Rep Ben Baker threatens librarians with prison sentences for allowing minors to read books banned by town committees Cory Doctorow
Business Newton's Principia Mathematica, George Washington's journal: archivist stole $8m worth of rare books from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism One of the world's largest private equity firms just bought one of the world's largest library ebook companies Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Library Socialism: a utopian vision of a sustaniable, luxuriant future of circulating abundance Cory Doctorow
books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow
books The Internet Archive's massive repository of scanned books will help Wikipedia fight the disinformation wars Cory Doctorow
happy mutants The Internet Archive's Open Library will let you sponsor a book, paying for it to be scanned Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Library of Congress releases 11,700 freely usable photos of "roadside America," taken by John Margolies Cory Doctorow
books Public library receipt shows how much money you saved by borrowing instead of buying books David Pescovitz
