Introducing "Project 451" [Join the memory rebellion.]
Posted by freedomforall 6 days, 18 hours ago to Books
Excerpt:
"From a recent article in The Scholarly Kitchen:
Clarivate, the provider behind a number of resources key to academic libraries… announced that it is shifting to a “subscription-based access strategy,” meaning that it will no longer allow academic libraries to purchase perpetual licenses to content… [This] came just a week before Amazon ended users’ ability to download their Kindle purchases to a computer.
While it feels to many consumers like buying an e-book means they have purchased a file that they can use as they please, in reality they have bought the right to access the book through approved methods.
Two weeks ago I complained about the failure/refusal of commercial news organizations to link to primary source materials. What I thought was an annoying niche problem is really a full-blown crisis. Not only are primary sources becoming difficult to locate, we’re being made into information renters, who will soon be able to purchase only temporary access to digital information, with publishers reserving rights to retrieve and edit even data you thought you owned.
This brings Ray Bradbury’s famous Fahrenheit 451 scenario to life. If keeping hold of original versions of history is discouraged or prohibited, memory becomes rebellion."
"From a recent article in The Scholarly Kitchen:
Clarivate, the provider behind a number of resources key to academic libraries… announced that it is shifting to a “subscription-based access strategy,” meaning that it will no longer allow academic libraries to purchase perpetual licenses to content… [This] came just a week before Amazon ended users’ ability to download their Kindle purchases to a computer.
While it feels to many consumers like buying an e-book means they have purchased a file that they can use as they please, in reality they have bought the right to access the book through approved methods.
Two weeks ago I complained about the failure/refusal of commercial news organizations to link to primary source materials. What I thought was an annoying niche problem is really a full-blown crisis. Not only are primary sources becoming difficult to locate, we’re being made into information renters, who will soon be able to purchase only temporary access to digital information, with publishers reserving rights to retrieve and edit even data you thought you owned.
This brings Ray Bradbury’s famous Fahrenheit 451 scenario to life. If keeping hold of original versions of history is discouraged or prohibited, memory becomes rebellion."
