Books Stories for 2016

'Watership Down' Author Richard Adams Died On Christmas Eve At Age 96 46
Amazon's Digital Day is Like Cyber Monday But For Downloads 20
What's the Best Book You Read This Year? 338
'The Circle' Trailer Looks An Awful Lot Like Google 77
Ask Slashdot: Have You Read 'The Art of Computer Programming'? 381
O'Reilly Discounts Every eBook By 50% 47
For the First Time, Living Cells Have Formed Carbon-Silicon Bonds 87
2016 Winners Announced For Interactive Fiction Competition 24
Humble Bundle Supports The EFF With A LEGO eBook Sale 17
'Stranger In a Strange Land' Coming To TV 227
Apple Releases $300 Book Containing 450 Photos of Apple Products 146
UK Bookstores Found Selling Banned US Bomb-Making Handbooks 108
Will The New 'Starship Troopers' Reboot Stay Faithful To The Book? 457
Interviews: Ask American Author and Entrepreneur Seth Godin a Question 67
Archive.org Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary 42
New Text Adventures Compete In 22nd 'Interactive Fiction Competition' 25
Spanish Police Arrest Their First Ever eBook Pirate 48
O'Reilly Gives Away Free Programming Ebooks 87
Why Is Science Fiction Snubbed By Literary Awards? 252
Amazon Piles On the Prime Benefits With New 'Prime Reading' Perk 54
Amazon's Kindle Unlimited Is a Victim of Its Success in Japan 48
Amazon Bans Incentivized Reviews Tied To Free Or Discounted Products 77
Revealed: How One Amazon Kindle Scam Made Millions of Dollars 40
Amazon Adds Audiobooks and Podcasts To Prime Membership 60
MIT Invented A Camera That Can Read Closed Books 92
Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Technology Books and Novels? 175
No, the Internet Has Not Killed the Printed Book - Most People Still Prefer Them 140
Belgians Are Hunting Books, Instead Of Pokemon 38
Nicholas Carr Says Tech 'Utopia Is Creepy' 213
CP/M Creator Gary Kildall's Memoirs Released As Free Download 157
British Newspaper Fooled By Online Harry Potter/Pokemon Go Hoax 36
Google Play Rolls Out Family Sharing 41
Google Will Let You Share Movies, Apps, and Music You Buy With Up To Six People 57
Apple Starts To Shell Out $400 Million To Customers In eBook Settlement 30
Hacker Who Stole Half-Life 2's Source Code Interviewed For New Book 192
IBM Engineer Builds a Harry Potter Sorting Hat Using 'Watson' AI 117
What Star Trek Owes To Robert Heinlein 180
William Gibson Announces New Sci-Fi Comic Book 32
Ask Slashdot: What Books Should An Aspiring Coder Read? 178
Slashdot Asks: Should It Be Legal To Resell E-Books, Software, and Other Digital Goods? 380
2015 Nebula Award Winners Announced 231
Uganda, Where a Book Can Cost a Month's Salary 102
Kobo Customers Losing Books From Their Libraries After Software Upgrade 81
Does Free Comic Book Day Help Retailers? 47
Man Sets World Record With 25 Continuous Hours In Virtual Reality 80
Ask Slashdot: How Could You Statistically Identify The Best Sci-Fi Books? 180
Neil Gaiman Celebrates Independent Bookstore Day 33
2016 Hugo Awards Shortlist Dominated By Rightwing Campaign 702
Kindle Unlimited Scammers Gaming the System At the Expense of Real Authors 106
Apple's iTunes Movies and iBooks Stores Mysteriously Go Down In China 14
Intel's Former CEO (and First Hire) Andy Grove Dead at 79 38
Is $699 Too Much For a 13.3-inch Android E-ink Reader? 195
Google Docs Can Now Export EPUB 39
AI Bookworms Seek To Predict Human Behavior 26
E-book Museum At the Library of Congress? 19
New Study Shows Mystery 'Hobbits' Not Humans Like Us 127
Scientists Propose Using Cold War Era Weapons To Deflect Asteroids 114
Scribd To Change Its 'Unlimited' E-book Subscription Plan To Semi-Unlimited 55
Interviews: 'Ubuntu Unleashed' Author Matthew Helmke Responds 89
US Copyright Law Forces Wikimedia To Remove the Diary of Anne Frank 178
Amazon Restores Some Heft To Helvetica For Kindle E-Ink Readers 85
Uborne Children's Books Release For Free Computer Books From the '80s 119
Amazon's Thin Helvetica Syndrome: Font Anorexia vs. Kindle Readability 156
Interviews: Ask 'Ubuntu Unleashed' Author Matthew Helmke 59
Diary of Anne Frank Subject To Copyright Dispute 150
Interviews: Ask David Peterson About Inventing Languages 87
A New, App-Based Format For Novels 57
Ask Slashdot: Composing an e-Book With a Couple of Bells and Whistles 148
Copyright Expires On Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf 420
Scott Meyers Retires From Involvement With C++ 112