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No One Buys Books Any More 165
More Books Than Ever Targeted For Bans 250
Has 'Silicon Valley-style Startup Disruption' Arrived for Book Publishing? 37
Darwin Online Has Virtually Reassembled the Naturalist's Personal Library 24
Thanks to Machine Learning, Scientist Finally Recover Text From The Charred Scrolls of Vesuvius 45
Gen Z Turns To Physical Books and Libraries 89
'A Groundbreaking Study Shows Kids Learn Better On Paper, Not Screens. Now What?' 130
Tolkien Estate Wins Court Order To Destroy Fan's 'Lord of the Rings' Sequel 136
Internet Archive: Digital Lending Is Fair Use, Not Copyright Infringement 50
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Take Aim At AI Freeloading 73
Merriam-Webster's Word For 2023 Is 'Authentic' 45
After 151 Years, Popular Science Will No Longer Offer a Magazine 40
Is Capitalism Dead? Yanis Varoufakis Argues Capitalists are Now Vassals to 'Techno-Feudalists' 148
81st World Science Fiction Convention Announces 2023 Hugo Awards 22
Bloomsbury Chief Warns of AI Threat To Publishing 44
Scientist, After Decades of Study, Concludes: We Don't Have Free Will 347
Amazon Workers' Sci-Fi Writing Is Imagining a World After Amazon 39
Two 'Godzilla' Scifi Novellas Finally Get English Translations, Capturing 1950s Horror at Nuclear Weapons 28
Amazon Restricts Authors From Self-Publishing More Than Three Books a Day After AI Concerns 57
On Bill Waterson's Upcoming Book - And Why He Vanished 77
Iowa School District Is Using AI To Ban Books 394
Publishers, Internet Archive Agree To Streamline Digital Book-Lending Case 6
Neil Gaiman To Continue 'Good Omens' Story Even If It's Not Renewed For Season 3 42
Amazon Reverses Course On 'Garbage Books' Written By AI 25
Paramount Agrees To Sell Simon and Schuster To KKR 17
What Role Does Intuition Play in Science? 86
Cory Doctorow's New Book On Beating Big Tech At Its Own Game 43
New Book about 'The Apple II Age' Celebrates Early Software Developers - and Users 76
Is AI Training on Libraries of Pirated Books? 96
Internet Archive Targets Book DRM Removal Tool With DMCA Takedown 20
Lawsuit Says OpenAI Violated US Authors' Copyrights To Train AI Chatbot 82
How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before It's Published 46
US Reading and Math Scores Drop To Lowest Level In Decades 248
A San Francisco Library Is Turning Off Wi-Fi At Night To Keep People Without Housing From Using It 251
Sol Reader Is a VR Headset Exclusively For Reading Books 92
Why Bill Gates Recommends This Novel About Videogames 74
Is Cybersecurity an Unsolvable Problem? 153
European Commission Calls for Pirate Site Blocking Around the Globe 29
Ask Slashdot: Should Libraries Eliminate Fines for Overdue Books? 163
'Free Comic Book Day' 2023 Celebrations Include 'Ant-Sized' Blu-Ray Discs 10
Fake Books Are a Real Home Decor Trend 98
Spotify Tries To Win Indie Authors By Cutting Audiobook Fees 5
Cory Doctorow's New Thriller Dramatizes 'Cryptocurrency Shenanigans' and 'Financial Rot' 29
The Rise of DOOM Chronicled on Retro Site for 'Shareware Heroes' Book 26
Z-Library Plans To Let Users Share Physical Books Through 'Z-Points' 18
Amazon To Close Book Depository Online Shop 24
Steve Jobs Has a New 'Memoir', to Be Published More than 11 Years After His Death 48
Missouri Reps Vote To Completely Defund State's Public Libraries 337
Internet Archive Loses in Court. Judge Rules They Can't Scan and Lend eBooks 96
Online-Books Lawsuit Tests Limits of Libraries in Digital Age 63
Neal Stephenson Celebrates 'Snow Crash' 30th Anniversary by Auctioning Sword with NFT, Manuscripts 26
Roald Dahl eBooks Reportedly Censored Remotely 244
Amazon Removes Books From Kindle Unlimited After They Appear On Pirate Sites 74
Sci-Fi Mag Pauses Submissions Amid Flood of AI-Generated Short Stories 71
ChatGPT Launches Boom in AI-Written E-books on Amazon 40
Librarians Are Finding Thousands of Books No Longer Protected By Copyright Law 11
Stephen Colbert To Produce TV Series Based On Roger Zelanzny's Sci-Fi Novels 'The Chronicles of Amber' 100
'Metropolis', Sherlock Holmes Finally Enter the Public Domain 95 Years Later 87
How Kindle Novelists Are Using ChatGPT's AI 65
Bookforum Is Closing, Leaving Ever Fewer Publications Devoted To Books 21
Over 50 Programmers Generate 50,000-Word Novels For 9th Annual 'Nanogenmo' Event 12
Cheeky New Book Identifies 26 Lines of Code That Changed the World 48
Authors Offer Free Downloads for New Second Edition of 'Designing with LibreOffice' Book 36
Hard Science Fiction Master Greg Bear Dies at Age 71 41
Feds Arrest Russians Accused of Running the Largest Pirated E-Book Library 73
Libraries Are Launching Their Own Local Music Streaming Platforms 6
Douglas Adams was Right. Science Journal Proves 42 Is the Address of the Universe 98
'Three-Body Problem' Animation Sci-Fi Series Starts Next Month 46
Domains for Z-Library eBook Site Apparently Seized By US Department of Justice 63
Judge Blocks Penguin Random House-Simon and Schuster Merger 58
Can Talking to Strangers Make Us Smarter? 72
William Shatner: My Trip To Space Filled Me With 'Overwhelming Sadness' 91
Neil Gaiman, Cory Doctorow And Other Authors Publish Open Letter Protesting Publishers' Lawsuit Against Internet Archive Library 29
Kindle Scribe Brings Writing To Amazon's Popular E-Reader 23
France Sets Minimum Delivery Fee For Online Book Sales To Help Independent Stores Compete 117
XKCD Author Finds Geeky Ways to Promote His New Book 65
'Linux IP Stacks Commentary' Book Tries Free Online Updates 13
Books Are Physically Changing Because of Inflation 93
Are Plants 'Intelligent'? 128
Cory Doctorow Launches New Fight against Copyrights, Creative Chokepoints, and Big Tech's 'Chokepoint Capitalism' 49
Why Neil Gaiman Finally Allowed 'The Sandman' to be Adapted for Netflix 65
Ask Slashdot: Movies, Shows and Books From This Year That You Really Enjoyed? 183
Pearson Says Blockchain Could Make It Money Every Time E-Books Change Hands 123
A Copyright Lawsuit Threatens To Kill Free Access To Internet Archive's Library of Books 50
A Library of Books No One Can Read For 100 Years 80
How the Higgs Boson Particle Ruined Peter Higgs's Life 53
Spotify Ready To Take On Amazon In Audiobooks 22
Amazon To Shut China Kindle Store After Years-Long Struggle 5
Free Comic Book Day Celebrates Big 20th Year with Many Geek-Friendly Titles 34
Amazon Kindle E-Readers Will Now Make It Easier to Load EBooks You Didn't Buy From Amazon 23
Brooklyn Public Library is Offering Free Digital Library Cards To Young Adults in the US 43
Ebook Services Are Bringing Unhinged Conspiracy Books into Public Libraries 264
Ironic Effect of Efforts to Ban Books: Teenagers Form New Book Clubs to Read Them 260
Efforts To Ban Books Jumped an 'Unprecedented' Four-Fold In 2021 142
A Professor Warns the Internet 'is Not What You Think It Is' 88
Is Burnout Just a Sign of a Broken Labor System? 93
Digital Books Are Not Fireproof 109
Should Audiobooks Be Narrated by AI? 113
XKCD's Randall Munroe Announces What If? 2 49
The Books Bill Gates Enjoyed Reading in 2021 83
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Books You Liked Reading This Year? 112
The Best Book of the Past 125 Years, According To NYT Book Review Readers 106
Libraries Enlist States in Fight Over ebook Rules 32
2021's Hugo Award Winners Include a Videogame, Plus Netflix and NBC Shows 71
Neal Stephenson Discusses His New Climate Change Thriller - and Coining the Word 'Metaverse' 96
Blind People Won the Right To Break eBook DRM. In 3 Years, They'll Have To Do It Again 74
New Book Warns CS Mindset and VC Industry are Ignoring Competing Values 116
Former Google CEO and Henry Kissinger: Manage 'Age of AI's Epoch-Making Transformations 50
France Moves To Shield Its Book Industry From Amazon 121
In New Sequel to 'The Circle', Dave Eggers Satirizes Algorithms Instead of Surveillance 29
The Nation's Largest Public Library System Is Ending Late Fees Forever 135
Amazon Gives Kindle E-Readers a Rare User Interface Overhaul 52
The Surprisingly Big Business of Library E-books 20
Amazon Prime Releases First Trailer for 'Wheel of Time' Series 66
Are Our Smartphones Making Us Dopamine Addicts? 78
Will Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation' Survive Its Transformation into a Streaming Series? 181
The Mysterious Figure Stealing Books Before Their Release 19
Ask Slashdot: Because of Social Media, Are We Reading Fewer Books? 136
TikTok is Taking the Book Industry By Storm, and Retailers Are Taking Notice 30
Microsoft's Kate Crawford: 'AI Is Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent' 173
Would It Even Be Possible to Communicate with an Alien? 167
Popular Science Is Now a Fully Digital Magazine 20
Personal Archives Reveal Douglas Adams Found Writing Torturous 86
Is Autism the Legacy of Humans Evolving the Ability to Innovate? 179
Amazon Withholds Its Ebooks From Libraries Because It Prefers You Pay it Instead 96
eBay To Remove Dr. Seuss Books From Sale Over Offensive Imagery 473
Best Story Wins 65
Internet Archive's Modern Book Collection Now Tops 2 Million Volumes 19
Amazon.com and 'Big Five' Publishers Accused of eBook Price-Fixing 50
Fantasy and Sci-Fi Author Debra Doyle, 1952-2020 24
Party Like It's 1925 On Public Domain Day 103
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
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
NYPL's Chief Digital Officer Says Public is Better off When Libraries Are 'Risk Averse' About Tech 78
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Good Books You Read This Year? 255
Sting on Amazon Booksellers Aims To Weed Out Counterfeit Textbooks, But Small Sellers Getting Hurt 87
Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers To Predict Their Futures 58
Amazon Has Everything it Needs To Make Massively Popular Algorithm-Driven Fiction 79
Amazon's AbeBooks Backs Down After Booksellers Stage Global Protest 26
Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read? 141
Stephen Hawking Warns That AI and 'Superhumans' Could Wipe Humanity; Says There's No God in Posthumous Book 733
150 San Franciscans Explain How Tech Money Changed Their City 61
A Computer Has Written A 'Novel' Narrating Its Own Cross-Country Road Trip 36
Slashdot Asks: What Book(s) Are You Reading This Month? 261
How Do Things Stick To Us in a Culture Where Information and Ideas Are Up So Quickly That We Have No Time To Assess One Before Another Takes Its Place? 134
Read Two Of This Year's 2018 Hugh Award Winners Online 133
Ancient Public Library Discovered In Germany 129
'No, Amazon Cannot Replace Libraries' 214

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