Among the week's headlines: an American organization wins an international publishing award for opposing censorship; Penguin Random House hosts its second Save our Stories Supper; Banned Books Week by the numbers; and public library ebook lending at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
If recent tensions over library ebook legislation has shown librarians anything, it is that maintaining the status quo in the digital library market is ultimately a choice being made by librarians. Legislation or not, can librarians change their approach?
What do libraries want from the major publishers in the digital library market? Hint: it isn't to destroy copyright. Librarians and ReadersFirst organizer Michael Blackwell weighs in on the group's just released proposal for fair digital license terms.
