Fewer books will be available to South Africans, and the books remaining under copyright will be more expensive, if the country gives in to US pressure to extend its copyright term.
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There's a worry some students don’t get enough opportunity to enjoy silent reading in schools. Here's some advice on how to change that.
When you buy a film, eBook or song, you might assume that you own it outright, but that's not always the case, meaning companies may have a right to take it back from you.
In the digital age, libraries got creative about how to translate services they've always offered into new formats. And they've transformed their spaces to have a variety of community uses.
Criticism of ebooks is the last thing you'd expect from the chief executive of global publishing company Hachette Livre.
To counter the unbalanced effects of the digital age, reading literature is the key.
Digital textbooks might be less cumbersome. But a new series of studies finds that reading from screens can hamper our ability to process and retain information.
Despite dire predictions, bookstores are doing well: they are curators of taste and community hubs. But their challenges are many – from the arrival of Amazon Down Under to a 'post-truth' climate that devalues knowledge.
Reports of the decline of the eBook are premature. The publishing industry is changing rapidly and data that appears robust tells us less than it once did.
Research shows that providing children with eReading devices can actually inhibit their reading.
When you borrow a paper book from a library, authors get a small royalty, which is their second most important source of income. Yet if you borrowed an e-book tomorrow, the author would get nothing.
E-book sales are falling, even though many said they would "kill" print books. Computers and television were also supposed to spell the book's demise. At one point, people even feared the phonograph.
The #bookstagram hashtag on Instagram is changing the way the world looks at reading.
While technological advances have rendered some products obsolete, they've also spurred the growth of niche markets that cater to people looking to reject mass-produced goods.
The company is hardly the evil megalomaniac that many have depicted: it's actually been very good for the book industry.
For the first time, teachers have voted for the best ebooks to use in school.
Using web data it's possible to work out which bookstores are the world's 'most loved'.
The smartphone is rising as a reading device. What happens to the stories they're telling?
Victor Hugo famously claimed the invention of the printing press destroyed the edifice of the gothic cathedral. Others fear the internet age will eventually destroy the novel. But guess what? It won't.
Terry Pratchett and Jorge Luis Borges may have been the prophets of the future library.
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