Books Stories for 2020

Surprise Ending for Publishers: In 2020, Business Was Good 25
Why on Earth Is Someone Stealing Unpublished Book Manuscripts? 42
Goodreads Is Retiring Its Current API, and Book-Loving Developers Aren't Happy 69
Publishing Saw Upheaval in 2020, But 'Books Are Resilient' 20
John le Carre, Author of Spy Novels, Dies at Age 89 29
IKEA Is Killing Off Its Catalog After 70 Years 60
Legendary Science Fiction Author Ben Bova Has Passed At the Age of 88 53
Cambridge University Says Darwin's Iconic Notebooks Were Stolen 52
New Online Bookshop Unites Indies To Rival Amazon 14
Cory Doctorow: Tech Workers Are Now Questioning the Powers Technology Gives 41
Publishers Worry As Ebooks Fly Off Libraries' Virtual Shelves 55
Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs: the Books They Recommended 45
Why Goodreads is Bad For Books 27
Long Before Cambridge Analytica, Simulmatics Linked Data and Politics 9
The 41 Books Mark Zuckerberg Has Recommended on Facebook 63
Cory Doctorow Crowdfunds His New Audiobook to Protest Amazon/Audible DRM 76
The 61 Books Elon Musk Has Recommended on Twitter 106
Who Committed the 25-Year, $8 Million Library Heist? 61
Cory Doctorow's New Book Explains 'How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism' 76
'We Must Take a Stand': Portland's Iconic Powell's Books Says It Won't Sell Books On Amazon Anymore 116
Neil Gaiman, William Shatner Join 'Read-a-Thon' Celebrating Ray Bradbury's 100th Birthday 12
Cory Doctorow: 'Self-Driving Cars are Bullshit' 347
Stet!, the Hot New Language Game 24
An Amazon Ad Prompted Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller To Block In-App Purchases of Kindle Books On iOS 108
Libraries Lend Books, and Must Continue To Lend Books: Internet Archive Responds To Publishers' Lawsuit 70
Do Drones Help Democratize Surveillance? 24
How To Sell Books in 2020: Put Them Near the Toilet Paper 27
AI Site Claims Simulated Conversations With Famous Dead Scientists 32
Terry Pratchett's Earliest Stories To Be Published In September 18
Is Our Technology Literally Changing Our Brains? 28
Apple Gives Us Our First Glimpse of Foundation, Adapted From Asimov Series 198
'Into the Wild' Bus Removed From Alaska Backcountry For Public Safety 97
Bookstores Are Struggling. Is a New E-Commerce Site the Answer? 29
Internet Archive Kills Its Free Digital Library Over Copyright Concerns 61
Activists Rally To Save Internet Archive as Lawsuit Threatens Site 41
Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive for Systematic Mass Scanning and Distribution of Literary Works 97
Does Science Fiction Build Mental Resiliency in Young Readers? 110
Can Bookshop.org Save Independent Bookstores? 90
How We Can Save the Comic Book Industry 146
Amazon To Cut Price of its Ebooks in UK To Reflect Removal of VAT 23
Will Comic Books Survive Coronavirus? 107
Ask Slashdot: What Are You Doing To Help? 251
O'Reilly Makes 'Prototype to Product' eBook Free to Help COVID-19 Innovators 30
'Abolish Silicon Valley' Author Urges 'Expropriating' Platforms, Making them Open-Source Public Services 250
University Libraries Offer Online 'Lending' of Scanned In-Copyright Books 38
Authors, Publishers Condemn the 'National Emergency Library' As 'Piracy' 147
Internet Archive's 'National Emergency Library' Has Over a Million Books To Read Right Now 45
What Are the Best Free Streaming Services? 42
Scribd is Giving Away 1 Month of Unlimited Access For Free 30
'The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy' Turns 42 41
Barnes & Noble's New Plan Is To Act Like an Indie Bookseller 28
Libraries Could Preserve Ebooks Forever, But Greedy Publishers Won't Let Them 125
In Amazon's Bookstore, No Second Chances for the Third Reich 258
More Americans Went To the Library Than To the Movies Last Year 102
'Unauthorized Bread': A Tale of Jailbreaking Refugees Versus IoT Appliances 32
71-Year-Old William Gibson Explores 'Existing Level of Weirdness' For New Dystopian SciFi Novel 81
JRR Tolkien's Son Christopher Dies Aged 95 40
Audible Settles Copyright Lawsuit With Publishers Over Audiobook Captions 7
Thoughts on Our Possible Future Without Work 197
A Celebration of Isaac Asimov 145