{"id":22809,"date":"2023-04-11T08:48:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T13:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=22809"},"modified":"2023-04-11T09:00:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T14:00:23","slug":"was-the-defeat-of-internet-archive-a-win-for-society-and-authors-or-just-publishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=22809","title":{"rendered":"Was the Defeat of Internet Archive a Win for Society and Authors, or just Publishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/talking-point\/1022362\/the-debate-over-digital-book-lending\"><strong>The Week<\/strong><\/a> tries to explain the political atmosphere surrounding publishers, libraries, and eBook lending in the aftermath of a recent legal defeat of the <strong>Internet Archive free online digital library<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The concerns of authors and indie publishers are genuine enough, and deserve consideration; however, the historically hostile relationship that big legacy publishers have fostered with public libraries for resisting their predatory pricing colors underlying motives, and dampens the fanfare regarding a win for &#8220;authors, publishers, and creative markets in a global society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We cannot forget the <strong>Big 5&#8217;s eBook War<\/strong> on public libraries that started in <strong>2019.<\/strong> (And continues in the background to this day.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Week tries to explain the political atmosphere surrounding publishers, libraries, and eBook lending in the aftermath of a recent legal defeat of the Internet Archive free online digital library. The concerns of authors and indie publishers are genuine enough, and deserve consideration; however, the historically hostile relationship that big legacy publishers have fostered with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=22809\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8,6,55,45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22809"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22813,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22809\/revisions\/22813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}