Digital Book World Bans Macmillan Employees In Response To Library Embargo; Creates Library Scholars
UPDATE: Read The Washington Post's coverage of Digital Book World's action against Macmillan here. As part of the sold-out Digital Book World 2019 back in September, our friends at the American Library Association announced the eBooksForAll campaign, in response to Macmillan's then-proposed embargo on ebooks at libraries. That embargo has since gone into effect, as of November 1, limiting libraries of any size or type to purchasing a maximum of one (1) copy of any new book, f
Cooler Heads Prevail: Audible and major publishers settle lawsuit over Audible Captions
In an interesting turn of events, Audible and a number of major publishers and publishing interests have settled their ongoing legal dispute over Audible Captions, the new feature for Audible which provides live transcriptions of audiobooks, two-to-three sentences at a time, accompanying the audio. The good news is that this avoids a protracted legal dispute. This was far from an open-and-shut case for publishers and would have been hard to predict what the courts would have
