After four major publishers filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive for copyright infringement, it has closed its National Emergency Library two weeks earlier than planned. That doesn’t mean the lawsuit isn’t still moving ahead; the Archive must still defend its practice of controlled digital lending. CDL is the basis for the Archive’s Open Library, where an ebook—created from an obtained print edition—is lent out to borrowers, one at a time, without payment to publishers. Learn more at Publishers Weekly.
Jane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the publishing industry, with a focus on business reporting and author education. Established in 2015, her newsletter The Bottom Line provides nuanced market intelligence to thousands of authors and industry professionals; in 2023, she was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World.
Jane’s expertise regularly features in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, The Today Show, Wired, The Guardian, Fox News, and BBC. Her book, The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition (The University of Chicago Press), is used as a classroom text by many writing and publishing degree programs. She reaches thousands through speaking engagements and workshops at diverse venues worldwide, including NYU’s Advanced Publishing Institute, Frankfurt Book Fair, and numerous MFA programs.
