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$125 Million Settlement In Authors Guild v. Google
Opus the Penguin Retired
New Tolkien Story To be Published
Tools & Surprises For a Tech Book Author?
Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books?
The Future of Digital Books
Author's Guild Says Kindle's Text-To-Speech Software Illegal
Learning To Profit From Piracy
Publishers Thank Google for Book Sales
The First Three Books Every Linux User Should Read
Choose Your Own Adventure Books Return
Amazon Culls "Offensive" Books From Search System
An Appeal In the "Harry Potter Lexicon" Case
Authors Guild President Wants To End Royalty-Free TTS On Kindle
Is Salacious Content Driving E-Book Sales?
Lose Your Amazon Account and Your Kindle Dies
William Gibson's AGRIPPA Recovered and Revealed
Programming .NET 3.5
Book Publishers Abandoning DRM
DS Games for Pre-readers?
Stanislaw Lem Dies in Krakow
Beginning iPhone Development
Michael Crichton Dead At 66
Schneier on Security
A Look Back At Kurzweil's Predictions For 2009
Good Deep-Knowledge Analog Design Books?
Harry Potter Leaked Via Handheld Camera
Heinlein's Last Novel Coming in September
J. K. Rowling Wins $6,750 In Infringement Case
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Dies At 84
Learning To Read With Click and Jane
MIT Press Book On Open Source Now Free
New Tolkien Book Released 'The Children of Hurin'
Non-Profit Org Claims Rights In Library Catalog Data
OLPC and CC Free Content Drive
On the Economics of the Kindle
Open Library Project Takes Flight
Pirate Yourself, Become a Best-Seller
Reading Guide To AI Design & Neural Networks?
Reading the New York Times On a Kindle 2
Sneak Peek At Neal Stephenson's "Anathem"
The Art of SQL
Deathly Hallows / OOTP Movie Discussion
Fantasy Author Robert Jordan Passes Away
The Xbox 360 Uncloaked
Wicked Cool Perl Scripts
Amazon Caves On Kindle 2 Text-To-Speech
Adobe's ADEPT DRM Broken
Amazon Sued Over E-Book DRM Patent
An Acerbic Look At the Future of Reading
Book Publishers Making the Same Mistakes as Record Labels?
Bookworm ePub Reader Gets Boost From O'Reilly
Cheap Printed Official Ubuntu Linux Documentation
DRM Causes Piracy
DRM Lite for Electronic Textbooks
David Foster Wallace an Apparent Suicide
Divine Proportions
Don't Take Notes In the Bookstore
Expensive Books Inspire P2P Textbook Downloads
Fraud Threat Halts Knuth's Hexadecimal-Dollar Checks
Good Physics Books For a Math PhD Student?
James Boyle's New Book Under CC License
Kindle 2 Tear-Down Reveals Price of Components
Neal Stephenson's "Diamond Age" To Be Miniseries
New Explanation For the Industrial Revolution
No, David Pogue, Ebook Piracy Is Not a Given
Open Source Textbooks For California
Oregon's New Censorship Law Challenged In Court
Orson Scott Card Blasts J.K. Rowling's Lawsuit
Plagiarizing Wikipedia For Profit
Project Gutenberg Volunteers Partial IMSLP Hosting
The Home Library Problem Solved
Tor Books Is Giving Away E-Books
Understanding Privacy
Using Social Networking Tools to Write a Book
Was This the First CC Community-Edited Novel?
Why Kindle 2's Screen Took 12 Years and $150 Million
Why Your e-Books Are No Longer Yours
World's Oldest Bible Going Online
Anathem
Dojo: Using the Dojo JavaScript Library
Mastering Regular Expressions
Ubuntu Kung Fu
Comparison of Internet Book Databases?
Amazon's Ebook The Future of Reading?
Can Architects Save Libraries from the Internet?
Carnegie Mellon's Digital Library Exceeds 1.5 Million Books
Digital Books Start A New Chapter
Examining the Era of Print-on-Demand
Google Subpoenas Microsoft & Yahoo
Group Hopes to Rename Street After Douglas Adams
Hands-On With The Kindle
Internet Archive Challenges Google
Interview With the Author of "Mastering Cat"
Kindle Versus The iPhone
Linux and OSS to Aid the Library of Congress
Novels Composed on Cellphones Topping Japanese Best Seller Lists
Open Library Goes Online With Public Domain Books
POD Braces Itself Against Amazon
Remote Kill Flags Surface In Kindle
Science Fiction Writers Write DMCA Takedowns
Ten Strangely Cruel Science Experiments
Beginning PHP and MySQL 5.0
Beginning Portable Shell Scripting
CSS: The Missing Manual
Ender in Exile
Google: The Missing Manual, Second Edition
Head Rush Ajax
The IDA Pro Book
User Mode Linux
Who Controls the Internet?
Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax
Beginning Ubuntu Linux
Collective Intelligence in Action
IPv6 Essentials
Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development
Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring
Netroots Politics
Nmap Network Scanning
OpenGL Distilled
PHP5 CMS Framework Development
Pro MySQL
Securing PHP Web Applications
The Manga Guide to Statistics
The Science of Secrecy
Ubuntu Hacks
Using Drupal
Why Software Sucks
Solving the Home Library Problem?
Bookstore Owner Burns Books
"Authors Guild" Skims Half of Google Book-Rights Settlement
1979 Interview With Douglas Adams
A Few Notes on Movies of the Near Future
A GUI For Books
A History of Atari — the Golden Years
A Veteran GM's First Impressions of D&D 4th Edition
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Env, 2nd Ed.
Amazon Announces Kindle 2, With Slew of New Features
Amazon Insists Publishers Use Their On-Demand Printer
Amazon Uses DMCA To Restrict Ebook Purchases
Amazon Wins First Kindle Patent; Bigger Screen Expected Soon
Amazon's Kindle Sells Out In 5.5 Hours
An Ethical Question Regarding Ebooks
Ancient Books Go Online
Astronomy Hacks
Beck and Andres on Extreme Programming
Big Tobacco Funded Anti-Global Warming Messages
Blackwell Launches Print-On-Demand Trial In the UK
Boiling Down Books, Algorithmically
Book Recommendations For Maths To Astrophysics?
Bulletproof Tool For Golden Age Browsing?
California To Move To Online Textbooks
Classic Books of Science?
Colfer Asked To Write Sixth HHGTTG Book
Competition In the Free Textbook Market
Computer Textbooks For High Schoolers?
Copyfraud Is Stealing the Public Domain
Copyright Infringement of Books
DOJ Confirms Google Antitrust Investigation
Dave Gibbons On the Forthcoming Watchmen Movie
Does Obama Have a Problem At NASA?
Douglas Hofstadter Looks At the Future
Entertainment Weekly Bemoans Lack of Great Science Books
Excerpt From Arthur C. Clarke's Last Work
Gen Y Hits the Library the Most -- But Not For Books
German Wikipedia To Be Published As a Book
Good PDF Reader Device With Internet Browsing?
Google To Remove "Inappropriate" Books From Digital Library
Google's Struggle To Reach Authors — of Every Book Ever Written
How Google's High Speed Book Scanner De-Warps Pages
Internet Archive Seeks Same Online Book Rights As Google
Ivy League Computer Science Curricula Exposed
J.G. Ballard Dies at Age 78
Jonathan Lethem On Plagiarism
Kindle 2 Tear-Down Reveals Price of Components
Kindle Goes Mainstream, Endorsed By Oprah
Kindle, Zune DRM Restrictions Coming Into Focus
Looking At Kindle Pricing, Business Models and Source Code
MD Appellate Ct. Sets "New Standard" For Anonymous Posting
Malcolm Gladwell Challenges the Idea of "Free"
Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" Due In September
New Wheel of Time Author Chosen
Offline Wikipedia Reader For iRex Iliad
Open-Source College Textbooks Gaining Mindshare
Original Shakespeare Portrait Discovered, Disputed
Previously Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Photographed
Programming Ruby
Questions Linger Over Google Book Rights Registry
Ray Bradbury Loves Libraries, Hates the Internet
Ray Bradbury Turns 88
Relics of Science History For Sale At Christie's
Researchers Demo Flippable-Page E-book Reader
Samsung Papyrus E-Book Reader, Coming Soon
Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens?
Scribd Becomes a DRM-Optional E-Bookstore
Silencing a Hard Drive Using Household Items
Storing Data For the Next 1,000 Years
Tech Publisher O'Reilly Slashes Jobs
The Case For Perpetual Copyright
The Complete FreeBSD 10 Years Old, Now Free