A group of leading textbook publishers, including Cengage, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill, and Pearson Education, have sued Library Genesis over staggering copyright infringement. The lawsuit claims ...

The popular e-book download site Z-Library was shut down earlier this month by U.S. federal authorities, as we reported last week, likely for the distribution of pirated materials. This left students ...

The question was posed by a student on Twitter. Within days, her request was met with all the crowdsourced intel needed to find an expensive textbook at no charge. Some people replied with links to ...

Library Genesis has become popular with students at colleges across the United States, including San Jose State University. (Matt Simons/Courthouse News) SAN JOSE, Calif. (CN) — Sasha didn’t pirate ...

Medill freshman Josefina Espino began using Z-Library to download textbooks for free as soon as she got to campus. “I was complaining about paying $300 for my books,” Espino said. “Then somebody told ...

Library Genesis is having a severe outage, and for the past week, no ebook or digital textbook downloads have been working. This is a severe blow to students who cannot afford to buy overpriced ...

Popular e-book piracy site Z-Library pledged not to restrict access to users in mainland China after a message from a local group raised concerns among people in the country who rely on access to one ...

While U.S. authorities were taking down the free and popular (and potentially illegal) e-book download site Z-Library, and arrest those affiliated with it this past month, internet archivers were ...