Books Stories for 2017

In a Declining Comics Market, DC Beats Marvel 159
How Many Books Will You Read in a Lifetime? Around 4600, If You Read Fast 99
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Books, Movies, Documentaries and Shows From This Year That You Liked and Recommend To Others? 91
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Avoid 'Information Overload' 133
A Book Recommendation for Bill Gates: The Story of PLATO 59
Predictive Keyboard Tries To Write a New Harry Potter Chapter 65
San Diego Comic-Con Wins Trademark Suit Against 'Salt Lake Comic Con' 117
Reading Information Aloud To Yourself Improves Memory 54
Tom Baker Returns To Finish Shelved Doctor Who Episodes Penned By Douglas Adams 83
Ask Slashdot: How Many Books Do You Read a Month? 173
MIT Researchers Trained AI To Write Horror Stories Based On 140,000 Reddit Posts 37
Captain Crunch (and Steve Wozniak) Write New Book: 'Beyond the Little Blue Box' 42
Amazon E-Book Buyers Receive Payment From Antitrust Lawsuit Settlement 42
Amazon Finally Makes a Waterproof Kindle 67
Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Favorite William Gibson Novel? 298
Microsoft 'Was Sick', CEO Satya Nadella Says In New Book 242
Astronaut Scott Kelly Describes One Year In Space -- And Its After Effects 200
Tim O'Reilly: Don't Fear AI, Fear Ourselves 72
'Banned Books Week' Recognizes 2016's Most-Censored Books (and Comic Books) 166
Inside Amazon's Warehouses: Thousands of Senior Citizens and the Occasional Robot Mishap 147
New Book Argues Silicon Valley Will Lead Us to Our Doom 202
Ask Slashdot: What Are You Reading This Month? 312
SciFi Author (and Byte Columnist) Jerry Pournelle Has Died 221
Amazon Tries To Snuff Out a Bunch of Kindle Publishing Scams 16
Lost Languages Discovered in One of the World's Oldest Continuously Run Libraries 164
One of the World's Most Influential Math Texts is Getting a Beautiful, Minimalist Edition 81
Terry Pratchett's Hard Drive Destroyed By Steamroller 161
Lost Turing Letters Give Unique Insight Into His Academic Life Prior To Death 142
Science Fiction Author Brian Aldiss Dies Aged 92 19
The 2017 Hugo Awards 180
United Airlines Claims TSA Banned Comic Books In Checked Luggage For Comic-Con, TSA Denies It 107
'In the Knowledge Economy, We Need a Netflix of Education' 144
You're Thinking About the Dictionary All Wrong, Lexicographers Say 130
O'Reilly No Longer Selling Individual Books, Videos Online 82
O'Reilly Media Has Stopped Retailing Books Directly On Its Ecommerce Store 24
Former Slashdot Contributor Jon Katz Believes He Can Talk To Animals 171
University of Missouri To Use Open Source And Other Cheaper Alternatives For General Education Textbook 58
Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier? 437
JRR Tolkien Book 'Beren and Luthien' Published After 100 Years 94
Technology Is Making the World More Unequal; Only Technology Can Fix This 145
Creative Commons Staff Members Release New Free eBook 27
Amazon Brings Its Physical Bookstore To New York 36
Today is 'Free Comic Book Day' 31
Amazon Will Change Its Ebook Contracts With Publishers as EU Ends Antitrust Probe 29
As Print Surges, Ebook Sales Plunge Nearly 20% 206
Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Favorite Books On Entrepreneurship? 87
Ask Slashdot: What Are Good Books On Inventing, Innovating and Doing R&D? 102
How Google Book Search Got Lost 46
Slashdot Asks: What Books Are You Reading This Month? 259
O'Reilly Site Lists 165 Things Every Programmer Should Know 234
Ebook Pirates Are Relatively Old and Wealthy, Study Finds 153
Math Teacher Solves Adobe Semaphore Puzzle 52
GitHub Invites Contributions To 'Open Source Guides' 54
University Offers Course To Help Sniff Out and Refute 'Bullshit' 402
New Free O'Reilly Ebook: 'Open Source In Brazil' 55
The Most Mentioned Books On StackOverflow 92
George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List 659
Amazon Offers To Scrap Ebook Clauses To Settle EU Antitrust Probe 16
Knuth Previews New Math Section For 'The Art of Computer Programming' 176
Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60 314
Amazon, Apple To End Audiobook Exclusivity: EU 16
Scribd Pulls Digital Comics From Its Subscription Reading Service 32
Library Creates Fake Patron Records To Avoid Book-Purging 258