The American Library Association (ALA), the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) have filed joint comments with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for the judge to consider in his ruling on the proposed Google Book Search Settlement (http://wo.ala.org/gbs/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/googlebrieffinal.pdf). The associations asked the judge to exercise vigorous oversight of the interpretation and implementati...

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Amazon.com Inc. says it will release a larger version of its Kindle electronic reading device that is geared toward newspapers, magazines and textbooks. The new $489 version has a grayscale screen that that measures 9.7 inches diagonally and includes a QWERTY keyboard like the current model....

Richard E. Deems, a trustee of The Hearst Family Trust and a member of the Board of Directors of Hearst Corporation and the two Hearst Foundations, as well as a former chairman and president of Hearst Magazines and a longtime force in the publishing industry, died May 4 at his apartment in Manhattan....

Three major library groups have filed comments with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for the judge to consider in his ruling on the proposed Google Book Search Settlement. The American Library Association (ALA), the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Association of Research Libraries, are asking the judge to "exercise vigorous oversight" ......

Three groups representing libraries, including the American Library Association, the largest such group in the United States, have asked a federal judge to exercise "vigorous oversight" over a class action settlement between Google, authors and publishers....