Books Stories for 2019

Why the Second-Hand eBook Market May Never Take Off 55
Judge Rules Edward Snowden Can't Profit From His Book 104
Do You Remember the Y2K Bug? 241
81-Year-Old Donald Knuth Releases New TAOCP Book, Ready to Write Hexadecimal Reward Checks 39
How Chinese Sci-Fi Conquered America 90
The Dangers of 'Black Box' AI 72
The Internet Archive Is Making Wikipedia More Reliable 56
Consumer Expert Argues Tech Addiction Is The User's Responsibility 133
'We Can't End Climate Change Without Changing Our Eating Habits' 393
Do Coders Crave a Sense of Control? 103
Milton's Notes On Shakespeare Appear To Have Been Found 32
Inspired By Harry Potter, 150 Colleges Now Have Quidditch Teams 91
Libraries and Archivists Are Scanning and Uploading Books That Are Secretly in the Public Domain 49
Microsoft Is Killing EPUB Support In Edge Classic 68
100-Year-Old James Lovelock Predicts Humans Will Be Replaced by Self-Aware AI 166
XKCD Contest Winners Force Book Tour Stop In Juneau Alaska 22
2019 Hugo Award Winners Include a Fan Fiction Site and 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' 120
Top US Publishers Sue Amazon's Audible For Copyright Infringement 39
How Flat Earthers Nearly Derailed a Space Photo Book 167
Paging Big Brother: In Amazon's Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite 43
An Ode To Microsoft Encarta 81
XKCD Author Challenges Serena Williams To Attack A Drone 87
AI Used To Narrate E-books in Authors' Voices 31
Can Britain's Top Bookseller Save Barnes & Noble? 83
Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain. You Can Download Them Free 85
Libraries Are Fighting To Preserve Your Right To Borrow E-Books 117
Edward Snowden Memoir To Reveal Whistleblower's Secrets 104
Is The Internet Making Us Better Writers? 165
Pearson Ditches Print Textbooks For College Students in Digital-First Strategy 154
How The Advance Weather Forecast Got Good 80
Prisons Are Banning Books That Teach Prisoners How To Code 193
How to Get XKCD Author Randall Munroe To Visit Your City 61
Book Subtitles Are Getting Ridiculously Long. Blame it on SEO. 86
Neal Stephenson Says Social Media Is Close To A 'Doomsday Machine' 59
No, Someone Hasn't Cracked the Code of the Mysterious Voynich Manuscript 155
Is Big Tech Needlessly Ruining Entire Industries? 325
Robert Zubrin Makes 'The Case For Space' 200
A Bookstore, Finally, Comes To the Bronx 74
Microsoft Stops Selling eBooks, Will Refund Customers For Previous Purchases 131
Woman Wins $10,000 For Reading Fine Print of Terms and Conditions of Travel Insurance Policy 89
Pew Research: Three-Quarters of Americans Have Read a Book in Last One Year -- 67% in Print Format; Use of Audiobooks Rising 97
DC Cancels Comic Where Jesus Learns From Superhero After Outcry 348
How Badly is Google Books Search Broken, and Why? 106
Bill and Melinda Gates: Textbooks Are Becoming Obsolete 162

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