Books Stories for 2018

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
Comic Book Publishers, Faced With Flagging Sales, Look To Streaming 249
Amazon's Curious Case of the $2,630.52 Used Paperback 117
New Book Paints Different Picture of Workplace Behavior At Google and Facebook 191
How Minecraft Is Helping Kids Fall In Love With Books 35
Science Fiction Writer Harlan Ellison Dies At 84 118
Oxford English Dictionary Extends Hunt For Regional Words Around the World 61
New York's Last Remaining Independent Bookshops 71
A Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain 113
New Book Describes 'Bluffing' Programmers in Silicon Valley 292
Google's New Book Search Deals in Ideas, Not Keywords 16
Apple Is Developing a TV Show Based On Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series 142
Stan Lee's Stolen Blood Was Used To Sign Marvel Comic Books 134
Amazon is Burying Sexy Books, Sending Erotic Novel Authors to the 'No-Rank Dungeon' 163
Amazon Plans Blockbuster TV Series Based On Chinese Sci-Fi Trilogy 'The Three-Body Problem' 158
Ask Slashdot: I Want To Get Into Comic Books, But Where Do I Start? 212
Project Gutenberg Blocks German Users After Outrageous Court Ruling 265
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Apps and Online Services You Use To Discover, Track and Evaluate Movies, TV Shows, Music and Books? 84
The Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy Returns With the Original Cast 84
HBO's Fahrenheit 451 Trailer Teases Dystopian World Filled With Burning 'Chaos' 171
Amazon Is Developing a TV Series Based On Iain M. Banks' Sci-Fi Novel 'Consider Phlebas' 104
The Slow Demise of Barnes & Noble 121
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Sci-Fi Books, Movies, and TV Shows You're Looking Forward To? 364
High School Computer Science: Look Ma, No Textbooks! 110
Walmart Teams Up With Kobo To Sell EBooks and Audiobooks 35
Apple's Getting Back Into the E-Books Fight Against Amazon 46
Fantasy Fiction Novelist Ursula K. Le Guin Dies At 88 89
Donald Knuth Turns 80, Seeks Problem-Solvers For TAOCP 71
Microsoft Tries To Write the Book On AI 58
'Science Fiction Writers of America' Accuse Internet Archive of Piracy 119
White House Bans Use of Personal Devices From West Wing 205

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