“Information wants to be free” – but at what cost? The Internet Archive was founded in 1996 as a non-profit digital library, aiming to provide “universal access to all knowledge”. It started with a ...

The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public — even as ...

The dispute started in the early days of the pandemic when the organization expanded access to a free online collection of books. By Eli Tan Reporting from San Francisco When libraries across the ...

The FBI on Friday seized the internet domains of the digital database Z-Library, which lets users illegally download pirated books and academic papers. (For insights on emerging themes at the ...

Update on 10/20/24 added to the bottom of this article. Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication ...

The internet has already had a major impact on how people find and access information, and now the rising popularity of e-books is helping transform Americans’ reading habits. In this changing ...