Archive the Source Package, Not Just the PDF
A preservation method for retaining the files and records needed to explain, correct, or remake a publication years after release.
The ledger archive
20 entries shown, each prepared after the events it records and published with its sources attached.
January 29, 2025
A copyright report left AI authorship a case-by-case question
The Copyright Office's second AI report concludes existing law needs no change, but sets no fixed threshold for human contribution.
November 4, 2025
A UK court found narrow trademark harm, not training liability
Getty's copyright claims against Stability AI were abandoned before trial; only limited trademark claims succeeded.
June 15, 2023
European publishers asked AI developers for transparency
FEP's 2023 position paper calls for training-data disclosure and licensing, not a ban on the technology.
An Audio Credit Sheet Is a Listening Contract
A repeatable credit and production sheet for audiobooks that makes performances, rights, editions, and corrections traceable.
June 27, 2013
A treaty let accessible books cross borders for print-disabled readers
WIPO's own treaty page and summary state what the Marrakesh Treaty's cross-border exception covers and when it took effect.
Three ways to turn the pages of Frankenstein.
A manuscript archive can offer physical order, reconstructed notebook order and narrative order. The Shelley-Godwin Archive makes those different routes visible rather than pretending they are interchangeable.
July 31, 2024
A federal report proposed a new right against digital replicas
The Copyright Office's first AI report addresses digital replicas, not the copyrightability of AI output.
July 10, 2013
A court found agency pricing became a conspiracy in its adoption
DOJ's ruling statement and case page separate Apple's trial verdict from five publishers' earlier settlements.
January 1, 2008
A platform launched in 2008 paid authors most of each sale
Smashwords' own history page dates its 2008 founding and its 2022 merger into Draft2Digital.
Treat the Print Proof as a Reading Copy
A physical-proof inspection pass for print-on-demand books, focusing on repeated faults visible only in sequence.
March 1, 2023
Authors Guild drafted a clause to block AI training uses
Its March 2023 model clause lets authors reserve rights over their books' use in training generative AI.
Keep one manuscript, and a record beside it
A practical stack for keeping manuscript decisions, sources, versions, and tool output legible from first note to final file.
December 6, 2023
Publishers told the Copyright Office that licensing is the norm
AAP's own filings date its October and December 2023 comments arguing AI training should follow existing licensing practice.
March 24, 1997
A bookstore opened online with a catalogue no shelf could hold
Amazon's 1997 SEC filings state what its July 1995 launch actually offered and what its founder personally guaranteed to fund it.
September 1, 2023
Amazon began requiring authors to disclose AI-generated content
KDP's 2023 guidelines distinguish AI-generated from AI-assisted work and require disclosure only for the former.
July 4, 1971
A typed Declaration of Independence became the first free ebook
Project Gutenberg's and Distributed Proofreaders' own pages state how a 1971 typing project grew into a volunteer-run digital library.
June 2, 2022
A nonprofit ebook platform launched to keep libraries in control
The Palace Project's own 2022 launch release ties its funding, governance and purpose to library-run econtent.
May 28, 2015
A guild's 2015 initiative named specific unfair contract terms
The Authors Guild's own launch materials list which standard clauses it targeted as unbalanced.
Smith College holds the papers of a poet it once taught
The library's own research guide separates the core Plath papers from photographs and ephemera gathered separately.