Slashdot Items Tagged "books"

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Wednesday April 10, 2024 @03:50PM More Books Than Ever Targeted For Bans
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