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“Hot Type: HathiTrust Case Highlights Authors’ Fears About Fate of Their Work Online”

October 7, 2011

What happens to individual authors’ work in a world of mass digitization and large collections of content? For some, the publishing/library ecosystem looks like the writers’ equivalent of factory farming. In my latest Hot Type column, I suggest that libraries and publishers need to take those concerns seriously even if they think they’re unfounded.

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