An interesting article by C. Kelty, author of Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software (Experimental Futures)Image may be NSFW.
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on virtual libraries and their role in shaping knowledge:
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on virtual libraries and their role in shaping knowledge:The shutdown of library.nu is creating a virtual showdown between would-be learners and the publishing industry. Last week a website called "library.nu" disappeared. A coalition of international scholarly publishers accused the site of piracy and convinced a judge in Munich to shut it down. Library.nu (formerly Gigapedia) had offered, if the reports are to be believed, between 400,000 and a million digital books for free.
And not just any books - not romance novels or the latest best-sellers - but scholarly books: textbooks, secondary treatises, obscure monographs, biographical analyses, technical manuals, collections of cutting-edge research in engineering, mathematics, biology, social science and humanities. Read more
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