The opening episode of Carl Sagan’s TV series Cosmos, first shown in 1980, lamented the most famous burning of books in history—the conflagration that destroyed the Library of Alexandria. “If I could ...

Yes, the way in which people consume ideas and knowledge will continue to evolve. We’ve already seen the transformation – from card catalogs to digital databases, from print journals to streaming ...

Libraries tend to occupy a sacred space in modern culture. People adore them. (Perhaps even more than that, people love the idea of them. A Pew survey last year found that while people report feeling ...

The famous library in Egypt flourished for six centuries and was the cultural and intellectual center of the ancient Hellenistic world before falling into ruin. When you purchase through links on our ...

The intellectual property (IP) world — the complex labyrinth of laws, lobbyists, court rulings, corporate interests, and legal treatises that protects creativity — can be bewildering at times. This is ...

In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library. Publishers sued. Owning a book means something different now. By David Streitfeld David ...