Alison Bassett / Archives & Research Center of the Trustees of Reservations 6 of 6 — Elizabeth Freeman is buried in the Sedgwick family plot in the Stockbridge, Mass., cemetery. Theodore Sedgwick was ...

For twenty years, literature consumption practices have undergone a total conversion. Readers can now avoid carrying bulky hardcovers and postpone paperback wait times – e-books have established ...

Libraries worldwide broke digital lending records last year as Overdrive, the company that operates Libby and Sora, recently reported seeing more than 739 million borrows of audiobooks, e-books and ...

Books work like keys. Some unlock doors quickly, while others open vaults slowly over time. As a business owner writing a book, there’s a tough choice to make: Do you provide your audience with a ...

Last week, a district court judge in New York ruled on Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. Internet Archive, a case that is likely to shape how we read books on smartphones, tablets, and computers in the ...

The fate of a nonprofit online book library is in the hands of a judge after four book publishers filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement. Reading time 2 minutes A federal judge heard oral ...

The Internet Archive has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to expand its book-digitizing efforts, which so far have resulted in the scanning of about 100,000 books now available on ...

Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too. By Alexandra Alter When Andy Hunter started ...

One intention of the Digital Book World conference, which wrapped up in New York City on Wednesday, was to serve as a showcase for new ideas in digital publishing. Sprinkled throughout the show’s ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Book publishers cried foul – in the form of numerous legal challenges – nearly two decades ago when the Google Books project digitized and freely distributed more than 25 million works.

From an early age, children are diving into the vibrant world of digital media, sparking a critical conversation about its impact on literacy. While the undeniable advantages of print books can enrich ...

Someone somewhere in the world is searching for the opening lines of Melville’s "Moby Dick," or maybe a phrase from Toni Morrison’s "Beloved," an anecdote from a Bart Starr biography, a speech by ...