A year ago, as the e-book industry was just starting to emerge, the biggest obstacle to its success seemed to be copyright law. Specifically, why would authors and book publishers--that is, copyright ...

Whenever bestselling author Robin Cook releases a new medical thriller, the head of the public library in West Haven knows demand for digital copies will be high. So will the price.Like many libraries ...

From the year after PW’s 125th anniversary issue, 1998—the year when the first handheld e-readers came out, the first library lending of e-books was launched, and e-books first got ISBNs—to today’s ...

A publishers‘ association is suing Maryland over the state’s new e-book law that requires book publishers to sell public libraries licenses to the same digital content that other customers can ...

Thanks to new, easier to use platforms and software, digital publishing is even more widely available than ever. While some relatively new companies are providing full-complement publishing ...

New Jersey librarians and lawmakers who joined forces to fight book-banners a few years ago have a new target: publishers whose restrictive e-book licensing agreements have shrunk digital access for ...

The company must now pay $450 million as part of a settlement, but it maintains it did nothing wrong. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has covered everything from HDTVs to ...

The Internet Archive has lost its appeal after book publishers successfully sued to block the Open Libraries Project from lending digital scans of books for free online. Judges for the Second Circuit ...

Arguments in a case on electronic publishing before the U.S. Supreme Court last month raised the possibility that the court’s ruling could have broad repercussions for the future of scholarly research ...