The Fight Over the Future of Digital Books - Dan Cohen, Atlantic Magazine, September 2012

The Fight Over the Future of Digital Books

By Dan Cohen

On September 12, 2011, the Authors Guild sued the University of Michigan, the University of California, the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, and Cornell University over digital copies of books from their vast libraries. Many of these scanned books are no longer in print and of interest only to scholars, but the lawsuit reflects the growing tension between professional authors and the libraries that hold their work.

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