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• @liz_a_harris Elizabeth A. Harris on x

  Internet Archives is shutting down its National Emergency Library, which made e-books available for free without restrictions. They called it a service for learners displaced by the pandemic. Authors and publishers called it theft. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @videodante Dante on x

  There are very few terms that I could use to refer to the minuscule cadre of mediocre nerd novelists who made this happen that would not get me banned from this site, so i will refrain from doing so https://twitter.com/...

• @jamespopstar @jamespopstar on x

  Will someone please archive the archive for crying out loud Internet Archive's system of letting you borrow content was brilliant and fair. Now we are saying I can't loan out a text I legally own to another person? That's overly restrictive and bonkers. https://twitter.com/...

• @lr_lam Laura on x

  Good. Sorry, you don't get to pirate books and pretend it's a library when authors (the vast majority of with are struggling to make anything near a living wage) are not getting compensated. Check them out from an actual library (ebooks included). https://twitter.com/...

• @victoriastrauss Victoria Strauss on x

  In a deceptive and self-serving blog post, the Internet Archive announces that it is shuttering its massively infringing National Emergency Library two weeks early https://blog.archive.org/...

• @rybesh Ryan Shaw on x

  “...commercial publishers chose to sue Internet Archive during a global pandemic... The complaint attacks the concept of any library owning and lending digital books, challenging the very idea of what a library is in the digital world” https://twitter.com/...

• @miketaylor @miketaylor on x

  I see that the American Association of Preventing People From Reading Books has succeeded in shutting down the National Emergency Library. Great work, @AmericanPublish! That'll teach those darned kids, with their stupid desire to read books! https://twitter.com/...

• @john_overholt John Overholt on x

  Ah, yes, the venerable tradition of controlled digital lending. (I support IA on this but “traditional” is funny to me.) https://twitter.com/...

• @ginger_clark Ginger Clark on x

  I have some thoughts on this and they can be encapsulated by saying that if you wanted to make medical texts free to frontline workers, you didn't have to put EVERYTHING ELSE ONLINE FOR FREE: https://blog.archive.org/...

• @tinytempest @tinytempest on x

  A balanced look at what's going on with the Internet Archive. https://arstechnica.com/...

• @tarnseele @tarnseele on x

  “Today we are announcing the National Emergency Library will close on June 16th, rather than June 30th, returning to traditional controlled digital lending.” https://twitter.com/...

• @incastellated @incastellated on x

  These publishers don't publish books. They publish products. https://arstechnica.com/...

• @markgraham Mark Graham on x

  The @internetarchive's #NationalEmergencyLibrary will close on June 16th, 2 weeks ahead of schedule. You can still borrow books, based on Controlled Digital Lending. We're happy students, teachers and learners of all kinds, have benefited from the NEL. https://blog.archive.org/..…

• @lisnews @lisnews on x

  Internet Archive ends “emergency library” early to appease publishers Online library asks publishers to “call off their costly assault.” https://arstechnica.com/...