12-09-2024 20:15 via technologyreview.com

The Internet Archive Court Loss Traps Libraries In Untenable Position

This decision harms libraries. It locks them into an e-book ecosystem designed to extract as much money as possible while harvesting (and reselling) reader data en masse. It leaves local communities’ reading habits at the mercy of curatorial decisions made by four dominant publishing companies thousands of miles away. – MIT Technology Review
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