Books Stories for 2023

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