Date / Time |
Story |
Sunday March 24, 2024 @07:35PM |
Has 'Silicon Valley-style Startup Disruption' Arrived for Book Publishing? |
Tuesday February 20, 2024 @09:48PM |
Darwin Online Has Virtually Reassembled the Naturalist's Personal Library |
Sunday February 18, 2024 @07:13PM |
Thanks to Machine Learning, Scientist Finally Recover Text From The Charred Scrolls of Vesuvius |
Friday February 09, 2024 @10:44PM |
Gen Z Turns To Physical Books and Libraries |
Wednesday January 17, 2024 @10:26PM |
'A Groundbreaking Study Shows Kids Learn Better On Paper, Not Screens. Now What?' |
Thursday December 21, 2023 @07:42PM |
Tolkien Estate Wins Court Order To Destroy Fan's 'Lord of the Rings' Sequel |
Monday December 18, 2023 @07:30PM |
Internet Archive: Digital Lending Is Fair Use, Not Copyright Infringement |
Wednesday December 13, 2023 @08:20PM |
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Take Aim At AI Freeloading |
Friday December 01, 2023 @07:46PM |
Merriam-Webster's Word For 2023 Is 'Authentic' |
Monday November 27, 2023 @06:14PM |
After 151 Years, Popular Science Will No Longer Offer a Magazine |
Sunday November 12, 2023 @07:36PM |
Is Capitalism Dead? Yanis Varoufakis Argues Capitalists are Now Vassals to 'Techno-Feudalists' |
Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:00AM |
81st World Science Fiction Convention Announces 2023 Hugo Awards |
Thursday October 26, 2023 @11:05AM |
Bloomsbury Chief Warns of AI Threat To Publishing |
Tuesday October 24, 2023 @09:32PM |
Scientist, After Decades of Study, Concludes: We Don't Have Free Will |
Saturday October 21, 2023 @05:05PM |
Amazon Workers' Sci-Fi Writing Is Imagining a World After Amazon |
Sunday October 15, 2023 @03:20PM |
Two 'Godzilla' Scifi Novellas Finally Get English Translations, Capturing 1950s Horror at Nuclear Weapons |
Monday September 25, 2023 @04:28PM |
Amazon Restricts Authors From Self-Publishing More Than Three Books a Day After AI Concerns |
Saturday August 19, 2023 @05:36PM |
On Bill Waterson's Upcoming Book - And Why He Vanished |
Monday August 14, 2023 @05:57PM |
Iowa School District Is Using AI To Ban Books |
Friday August 11, 2023 @09:19PM |
Publishers, Internet Archive Agree To Streamline Digital Book-Lending Case |
Friday August 11, 2023 @05:41PM |
Neil Gaiman To Continue 'Good Omens' Story Even If It's Not Renewed For Season 3 |
Wednesday August 09, 2023 @04:50PM |
Amazon Reverses Course On 'Garbage Books' Written By AI |
Monday August 07, 2023 @04:26PM |
Paramount Agrees To Sell Simon and Schuster To KKR |
Saturday August 05, 2023 @06:02PM |
What Role Does Intuition Play in Science? |
Wednesday August 02, 2023 @04:37PM |
Cory Doctorow's New Book On Beating Big Tech At Its Own Game |
Tuesday July 25, 2023 @04:13AM |
New Book about 'The Apple II Age' Celebrates Early Software Developers - and Users |
Sunday July 23, 2023 @07:34PM |
Is AI Training on Libraries of Pirated Books? |
Friday July 14, 2023 @06:19PM |
Internet Archive Targets Book DRM Removal Tool With DMCA Takedown |
Friday June 30, 2023 @05:56PM |
Lawsuit Says OpenAI Violated US Authors' Copyrights To Train AI Chatbot |
Thursday June 29, 2023 @03:54PM |
How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before It's Published |
Wednesday June 21, 2023 @04:52PM |
US Reading and Math Scores Drop To Lowest Level In Decades |
Wednesday June 14, 2023 @05:09PM |
A San Francisco Library Is Turning Off Wi-Fi At Night To Keep People Without Housing From Using It |
Monday June 12, 2023 @08:17PM |
Sol Reader Is a VR Headset Exclusively For Reading Books |
Sunday June 04, 2023 @06:28PM |
Why Bill Gates Recommends This Novel About Videogames |
Sunday May 28, 2023 @02:20PM |
Is Cybersecurity an Unsolvable Problem? |
Wednesday May 24, 2023 @04:35PM |
European Commission Calls for Pirate Site Blocking Around the Globe |
Sunday May 07, 2023 @01:46PM |
Ask Slashdot: Should Libraries Eliminate Fines for Overdue Books? |
Saturday May 06, 2023 @01:31AM |
'Free Comic Book Day' 2023 Celebrations Include 'Ant-Sized' Blu-Ray Discs |
Tuesday May 02, 2023 @09:00AM |
Fake Books Are a Real Home Decor Trend |
Monday May 01, 2023 @05:31PM |
Spotify Tries To Win Indie Authors By Cutting Audiobook Fees |
Saturday April 22, 2023 @01:40PM |
Cory Doctorow's New Thriller Dramatizes 'Cryptocurrency Shenanigans' and 'Financial Rot' |
Friday April 14, 2023 @11:11PM |
The Rise of DOOM Chronicled on Retro Site for 'Shareware Heroes' Book |
Monday April 10, 2023 @04:32PM |
Z-Library Plans To Let Users Share Physical Books Through 'Z-Points' |
Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:25PM |
Amazon To Close Book Depository Online Shop |
Saturday April 01, 2023 @07:26PM |
Steve Jobs Has a New 'Memoir', to Be Published More than 11 Years After His Death |
Thursday March 30, 2023 @05:22PM |
Missouri Reps Vote To Completely Defund State's Public Libraries |
Friday March 24, 2023 @09:12PM |
Internet Archive Loses in Court. Judge Rules They Can't Scan and Lend eBooks |
Monday March 20, 2023 @05:37AM |
Online-Books Lawsuit Tests Limits of Libraries in Digital Age |
Sunday March 05, 2023 @06:09PM |
Neal Stephenson Celebrates 'Snow Crash' 30th Anniversary by Auctioning Sword with NFT, Manuscripts |
Saturday March 04, 2023 @01:21AM |
Roald Dahl eBooks Reportedly Censored Remotely |
Monday February 27, 2023 @06:09PM |
Amazon Removes Books From Kindle Unlimited After They Appear On Pirate Sites |
Tuesday February 21, 2023 @02:52PM |
Sci-Fi Mag Pauses Submissions Amid Flood of AI-Generated Short Stories |
Tuesday February 21, 2023 @02:49PM |
ChatGPT Launches Boom in AI-Written E-books on Amazon |
Friday February 10, 2023 @06:17PM |
Librarians Are Finding Thousands of Books No Longer Protected By Copyright Law |
Wednesday January 18, 2023 @06:42PM |
Stephen Colbert To Produce TV Series Based On Roger Zelanzny's Sci-Fi Novels 'The Chronicles of Amber' |
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:11AM |
Top Kids Books Store in India |
Monday January 09, 2023 @09:33AM |
Download the best English books to prepare for the SBI PO 2023 exam-PW |
Friday January 06, 2023 @06:59AM |
BSc Non Medical: Scope, Jobs, Subjects, Books |
Thursday January 05, 2023 @11:22AM |
Best books for finance |
Sunday January 01, 2023 @07:56PM |
'Metropolis', Sherlock Holmes Finally Enter the Public Domain 95 Years Later |
Sunday December 25, 2022 @10:54PM |
How Kindle Novelists Are Using ChatGPT's AI |
Sunday December 25, 2022 @10:53PM |
How Kindle Novelists Are Using ChatGPT |
Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:04PM |
Bookforum Is Closing, Leaving Ever Fewer Publications Devoted To Books |
Tuesday December 06, 2022 @05:03PM |
Open source online great books program thrives on free education |
Sunday December 04, 2022 @09:48PM |
Over 50 Programmers Generate 50,000-Word Novels For 9th Annual 'Nanogenmo' Event |
Wednesday November 30, 2022 @05:30AM |
PRO Guide For Selling Books On Amazon in 2022 |
Sunday November 27, 2022 @12:20PM |
Cheeky New Book Identifies 26 Lines of Code That Changed the World |
Tuesday November 22, 2022 @09:23PM |
The Meridian Library Fights Back Against Activists' Efforts To Ban Books |
Monday November 21, 2022 @07:46AM |
The inspiring stories of Scott Pratt philosophy books satisfy wisdom of enthusia |
Sunday November 20, 2022 @11:58AM |
Hard Science Fiction Master Greg Bear Dies at Age 71 |
Sunday November 20, 2022 @11:37AM |
Darwin's Radio |
Saturday November 19, 2022 @09:10PM |
Authors Offer Free Downloads for New Second Edition of 'Designing with LibreOffice' Book |
Thursday November 17, 2022 @05:54PM |
Feds Arrest Russians Accused of Running the Largest Pirated E-Book Library |
Monday November 14, 2022 @05:21PM |
Libraries Are Launching Their Own Local Music Streaming Platforms |
Monday November 14, 2022 @01:13PM |
Douglas Adams was Right. Science Journal Proves 42 Is the Address of the Universe |
Saturday November 12, 2022 @05:42PM |
'Three-Body Problem' Animation Sci-Fi Series Starts Next Month |
Saturday November 05, 2022 @10:20PM |
Domains for Z-Library eBook Site Apparently Seized By US Department of Justice |
Wednesday November 02, 2022 @11:32AM |
Judge Blocks Penguin Random House-Simon and Schuster Merger |
Sunday October 30, 2022 @06:38PM |
Can Talking to Strangers Make Us Smarter? |
Friday October 07, 2022 @04:35PM |
William Shatner: My Trip To Space Filled Me With 'Overwhelming Sadness' |
Thursday September 29, 2022 @05:59PM |
Neil Gaiman, Cory Doctorow And Other Authors Publish Open Letter Protesting Publishers' Lawsuit Against Internet Archive Library |
Wednesday September 28, 2022 @05:18PM |
Kindle Scribe Brings Writing To Amazon's Popular E-Reader |
Friday September 23, 2022 @09:36AM |
France Sets Minimum Delivery Fee For Online Book Sales To Help Independent Stores Compete |
Sunday September 18, 2022 @01:06PM |
XKCD Author Finds Geeky Ways to Promote His New Book |
Friday September 16, 2022 @11:06PM |
'Linux IP Stacks Commentary' Book Tries Free Online Updates |
Monday September 12, 2022 @05:08PM |
Books Are Physically Changing Because of Inflation |
Sunday August 28, 2022 @07:35PM |
Are Plants 'Intelligent'? |
Sunday August 21, 2022 @03:03PM |
Cory Doctorow Launches New Fight against Copyrights, Creative Chokepoints, and Big Tech's 'Chokepoint Capitalism' |
Saturday August 06, 2022 @09:30PM |
Why Neil Gaiman Finally Allowed 'The Sandman' to be Adapted for Netflix |
Wednesday August 03, 2022 @12:58PM |
Ask Slashdot: Movies, Shows and Books From This Year That You Really Enjoyed? |
Monday August 01, 2022 @10:52AM |
Pearson Says Blockchain Could Make It Money Every Time E-Books Change Hands |
Wednesday July 13, 2022 @08:34PM |
A Copyright Lawsuit Threatens To Kill Free Access To Internet Archive's Library of Books |
Monday July 04, 2022 @05:02PM |
A Library of Books No One Can Read For 100 Years |
Saturday July 02, 2022 @02:47PM |
How the Higgs Boson Particle Ruined Peter Higgs's Life |
Thursday June 09, 2022 @05:55PM |
Spotify Ready To Take On Amazon In Audiobooks |
Thursday June 02, 2022 @06:18AM |
Amazon To Shut China Kindle Store After Years-Long Struggle |
Friday May 06, 2022 @08:11PM |
Free Comic Book Day Celebrates Big 20th Year with Many Geek-Friendly Titles |
Monday May 02, 2022 @02:21PM |
Amazon Kindle E-Readers Will Now Make It Easier to Load EBooks You Didn't Buy From Amazon |
Monday April 25, 2022 @05:45PM |
Brooklyn Public Library is Offering Free Digital Library Cards To Young Adults in the US |
Friday April 22, 2022 @06:38PM |
Ebook Services Are Bringing Unhinged Conspiracy Books into Public Libraries |
Sunday April 17, 2022 @06:14PM |
Ironic Effect of Efforts to Ban Books: Teenagers Form New Book Clubs to Read Them |
Monday April 04, 2022 @06:29PM |
Efforts To Ban Books Jumped an 'Unprecedented' Four-Fold In 2021 |
Sunday April 03, 2022 @01:57AM |
A Professor Warns the Internet 'is Not What You Think It Is' |
Saturday March 26, 2022 @05:02PM |
Is Burnout Just a Sign of a Broken Labor System? |
Tuesday March 08, 2022 @01:25PM |
Digital Books Are Not Fireproof |
Saturday February 05, 2022 @11:20PM |
Should Audiobooks Be Narrated by AI? |
Friday February 04, 2022 @11:30PM |
XKCD's Randall Munroe Announces What If? 2 |
Friday December 31, 2021 @09:39PM |
The Books Bill Gates Enjoyed Reading in 2021 |
Friday December 31, 2021 @03:37PM |
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Books You Liked Reading This Year? |
Thursday December 30, 2021 @10:01PM |
The Best Book of the Past 125 Years, According To NYT Book Review Readers |
Tuesday December 21, 2021 @11:40AM |
Libraries Enlist States in Fight Over ebook Rules |
Sunday December 19, 2021 @05:19PM |
2021's Hugo Award Winners Include a Videogame, Plus Netflix and NBC Shows |
Sunday November 14, 2021 @09:42PM |
Neal Stephenson Discusses His New Climate Change Thriller - and Coining the Word 'Metaverse' |
Monday November 08, 2021 @08:01PM |
Blind People Won the Right To Break eBook DRM. In 3 Years, They'll Have To Do It Again |
Sunday November 07, 2021 @04:58PM |
Former Google CEO and Henry Kissinger: Manage 'Age of AI's Epoch-Making Transformations |
Friday November 05, 2021 @08:19PM |
New Book Warns CS Mindset and VC Industry are Ignoring Competing Values |
Tuesday October 26, 2021 @08:25PM |
France Moves To Shield Its Book Industry From Amazon |
Saturday October 16, 2021 @10:23PM |
In New Sequel to 'The Circle', Dave Eggers Satirizes Algorithms Instead of Surveillance |
Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:27PM |
The Nation's Largest Public Library System Is Ending Late Fees Forever |
Tuesday September 14, 2021 @07:03PM |
Amazon Gives Kindle E-Readers a Rare User Interface Overhaul |
Monday September 06, 2021 @10:04AM |
The Surprisingly Big Business of Library E-books |
Friday September 03, 2021 @09:45PM |
Amazon Prime Releases First Trailer for 'Wheel of Time' Series |
Sunday August 22, 2021 @05:57PM |
Are Our Smartphones Making Us Dopamine Addicts? |
Saturday August 21, 2021 @11:24PM |
Will Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation' Survive Its Transformation into a Streaming Series? |
Tuesday August 17, 2021 @02:37PM |
The Mysterious Figure Stealing Books Before Their Release |
Sunday July 11, 2021 @05:51PM |
Ask Slashdot: Because of Social Media, Are We Reading Fewer Books? |
Tuesday July 06, 2021 @03:28PM |
TikTok is Taking the Book Industry By Storm, and Retailers Are Taking Notice |
Monday June 07, 2021 @04:53PM |
Microsoft's Kate Crawford: 'AI Is Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent' |
Saturday May 29, 2021 @12:19AM |
Would It Even Be Possible to Communicate with an Alien? |
Tuesday April 27, 2021 @05:24PM |
Popular Science Is Now a Fully Digital Magazine |
Monday March 22, 2021 @05:15PM |
Personal Archives Reveal Douglas Adams Found Writing Torturous |
Saturday March 13, 2021 @07:43PM |
Is Autism the Legacy of Humans Evolving the Ability to Innovate? |
Wednesday March 10, 2021 @03:55PM |
Amazon Withholds Its Ebooks From Libraries Because It Prefers You Pay it Instead |
Thursday March 04, 2021 @08:17PM |
eBay To Remove Dr. Seuss Books From Sale Over Offensive Imagery |
Monday February 15, 2021 @04:34PM |
Best Story Wins |
Monday February 08, 2021 @01:21PM |
Internet Archive's Modern Book Collection Now Tops 2 Million Volumes |
Friday January 15, 2021 @06:00PM |
Amazon.com and 'Big Five' Publishers Accused of eBook Price-Fixing |
Saturday January 02, 2021 @09:54PM |
Fantasy and Sci-Fi Author Debra Doyle, 1952-2020 |
Friday January 01, 2021 @02:51PM |
Party Like It's 1925 On Public Domain Day |
Tuesday December 29, 2020 @07:45PM |
Surprise Ending for Publishers: In 2020, Business Was Good |
Thursday December 24, 2020 @04:27PM |
Why on Earth Is Someone Stealing Unpublished Book Manuscripts? |
Thursday December 17, 2020 @11:22AM |
Goodreads Is Retiring Its Current API, and Book-Loving Developers Aren't Happy |
Thursday December 17, 2020 @08:07AM |
Publishing Saw Upheaval in 2020, But 'Books Are Resilient' |
Sunday December 13, 2020 @08:12PM |
John le Carre, Author of Spy Novels, Dies at Age 89 |
Monday December 07, 2020 @06:23PM |
IKEA Is Killing Off Its Catalog After 70 Years |
Saturday December 05, 2020 @02:50AM |
Legendary Science Fiction Author Ben Bova Has Passed At the Age of 88 |
Wednesday November 25, 2020 @11:05PM |
Cambridge University Says Darwin's Iconic Notebooks Were Stolen |
Tuesday November 03, 2020 @05:26PM |
New Online Bookshop Unites Indies To Rival Amazon |
Sunday October 11, 2020 @12:54AM |
Cory Doctorow: Tech Workers Are Now Questioning the Powers Technology Gives |
Thursday October 01, 2020 @06:06PM |
Publishers Worry As Ebooks Fly Off Libraries' Virtual Shelves |
Sunday September 20, 2020 @06:41PM |
Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs: the Books They Recommended |
Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:31PM |
Why Goodreads is Bad For Books |
Monday September 14, 2020 @03:55PM |
Long Before Cambridge Analytica, Simulmatics Linked Data and Politics |
Sunday September 13, 2020 @08:55AM |
The 41 Books Mark Zuckerberg Has Recommended on Facebook |
Friday September 11, 2020 @07:57PM |
Cory Doctorow Crowdfunds His New Audiobook to Protest Amazon/Audible DRM |
Sunday September 06, 2020 @08:15PM |
The 61 Books Elon Musk Has Recommended on Twitter |
Saturday September 05, 2020 @04:24PM |
Who Committed the 25-Year, $8 Million Library Heist? |
Sunday August 30, 2020 @01:04AM |
Cory Doctorow's New Book Explains 'How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism' |
Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:44PM |
'We Must Take a Stand': Portland's Iconic Powell's Books Says It Won't Sell Books On Amazon Anymore |
Saturday August 22, 2020 @01:22AM |
Neil Gaiman, William Shatner Join 'Read-a-Thon' Celebrating Ray Bradbury's 100th Birthday |
Sunday August 16, 2020 @01:45PM |
Cory Doctorow: 'Self-Driving Cars are Bullshit' |
Tuesday August 04, 2020 @11:13AM |
Stet!, the Hot New Language Game |
Friday July 31, 2020 @07:59PM |
An Amazon Ad Prompted Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller To Block In-App Purchases of Kindle Books On iOS |
Thursday July 30, 2020 @12:52PM |
Libraries Lend Books, and Must Continue To Lend Books: Internet Archive Responds To Publishers' Lawsuit |
Saturday July 25, 2020 @04:41PM |
Do Drones Help Democratize Surveillance? |
Thursday July 23, 2020 @02:45PM |
How To Sell Books in 2020: Put Them Near the Toilet Paper |
Friday July 10, 2020 @10:13PM |
Terry Pratchett's Earliest Stories To Be Published In September |
Friday July 10, 2020 @08:28PM |
AI Site Claims Simulated Conversations With Famous Dead Scientists |
Saturday July 04, 2020 @12:39AM |
Is Our Technology Literally Changing Our Brains? |
Monday June 22, 2020 @08:33PM |
Apple Gives Us Our First Glimpse of Foundation, Adapted From Asimov Series |
Friday June 19, 2020 @03:39PM |
'Into the Wild' Bus Removed From Alaska Backcountry For Public Safety |
Tuesday June 16, 2020 @02:47PM |
Bookstores Are Struggling. Is a New E-Commerce Site the Answer? |
Friday June 12, 2020 @10:11AM |
Internet Archive Kills Its Free Digital Library Over Copyright Concerns |
Thursday June 11, 2020 @03:04PM |
Activists Rally To Save Internet Archive as Lawsuit Threatens Site |
Monday June 01, 2020 @12:49PM |
Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive for Systematic Mass Scanning and Distribution of Literary Works |
Sunday May 31, 2020 @08:26PM |
Transhumanist Children's Book Argues, "Death Is Wrong" |
Friday May 29, 2020 @07:20AM |
Why Beatrix Potter Would Love a Digital Reader |
Sunday May 17, 2020 @02:11PM |
Does Science Fiction Build Mental Resiliency in Young Readers? |
Sunday May 10, 2020 @09:29PM |
Can Bookshop.org Save Independent Bookstores? |
Saturday May 02, 2020 @12:56AM |
How We Can Save the Comic Book Industry |
Thursday April 30, 2020 @03:22PM |
Amazon To Cut Price of its Ebooks in UK To Reflect Removal of VAT |
Monday April 20, 2020 @03:29PM |
Will Comic Books Survive Coronavirus? |
Monday April 20, 2020 @01:19AM |
Ask Slashdot: What Are You Doing To Help? |
Saturday April 18, 2020 @10:26PM |
O'Reilly Makes 'Prototype to Product' eBook Free to Help COVID-19 Innovators |
Sunday April 12, 2020 @07:52PM |
'Abolish Silicon Valley' Author Urges 'Expropriating' Platforms, Making them Open-Source Public Services |
Wednesday April 08, 2020 @06:07PM |
University Libraries Offer Online 'Lending' of Scanned In-Copyright Books |
Monday March 30, 2020 @06:17PM |
Authors, Publishers Condemn the 'National Emergency Library' As 'Piracy' |
Monday March 30, 2020 @11:37AM |
Internet Archive's 'National Emergency Library' Has Over a Million Books To Read Right Now |
Saturday March 21, 2020 @04:03PM |
What Are the Best Free Streaming Services? |
Thursday March 19, 2020 @01:28PM |
Scribd is Giving Away 1 Month of Unlimited Access For Free |
Monday March 09, 2020 @03:40PM |
'The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy' Turns 42 |
Thursday March 05, 2020 @08:14PM |
Barnes & Noble's New Plan Is To Act Like an Indie Bookseller |
Tuesday March 03, 2020 @04:51PM |
Libraries Could Preserve Ebooks Forever, But Greedy Publishers Won't Let Them |
Monday February 10, 2020 @03:23PM |
In Amazon's Bookstore, No Second Chances for the Third Reich |
Monday January 27, 2020 @10:24AM |
More Americans Went To the Library Than To the Movies Last Year |
Thursday January 23, 2020 @06:36PM |
'Unauthorized Bread': A Tale of Jailbreaking Refugees Versus IoT Appliances |
Sunday January 19, 2020 @07:32PM |
71-Year-Old William Gibson Explores 'Existing Level of Weirdness' For New Dystopian SciFi Novel |
Thursday January 16, 2020 @05:04PM |
JRR Tolkien's Son Christopher Dies Aged 95 |
Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:34PM |
Audible Settles Copyright Lawsuit With Publishers Over Audiobook Captions |
Sunday January 12, 2020 @03:29PM |
Thoughts on Our Possible Future Without Work |