Project Gutenberg releases 5,000 free audiobooks using neural text-to-speech technology
Eventually, anyone might be able to listen to an audiobook in their own voice
The Internet Archive reaches an agreement with publishers in digital book-lending case
A hot potato: The Internet Archive is a digital library founded by Brewster Kahle in 1996 around the idea of "universal access to all knowledge." The Archive provides free, worldwide access to countless movies, music, software, video games, internet websites, and books. Publishers don't like that, as the IA is seemingly infringing their copyright.
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Four publishers are trying to destroy the Internet Archive and digital lending
World's largest digital library could be forced to shut down for good
The Internet Archive is fighting publishers over the right of lending digital books
One of the world's largest information repositories is on trial
Someone got Halo: Infinite and GTA 3 to run on an ebook reader
Just because they could
Internet Archive is closing its National Emergency Library two weeks early in hopes of skirting costly lawsuit
Will the publishers call off their lawsuit?
Publishers say the Internet Archive's National Emergency Library constitutes 'willful mass copyright infringement'
Is a digital lender any different than a traditional library?
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