The High Court has ruled that the government’s ban on sending books to prisoners in England and Wales is unlawful.
The British public has voted the Bible as the most significant book in today’s world in a survey for the Folio Society.
The public clash between Hachette and Amazon has been making headlines for a while now, most recently around J K Rowling’s latest novel. Amazon bowed to consumer pressure after complaints that the book was being offered by the site as “usually ship[ping] within 1 to 2 months” – on the first day of its publication.
An author who admitted that her best selling ‘Holocaust memoir’ was a work of fiction has been ordered to repay her publishers the entire $22.5 million (£13.3 million) proceeds.
John Mark Ockerbloom’s “From Wikipedia to our libraries” is a fabulous proposal for creating research synergies between libraries and Wikipedia,…