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Becoming Agile
Copyright Time Bomb Set To Go Off
Software To Flatten a Photographed Book?
Service Oriented Architecture With Java
$125 Million Settlement In Authors Guild v. Google
Opus the Penguin Retired
Author's Guild Says Kindle's Text-To-Speech Software Illegal
Interview With the Author of "Mastering Cat"
Remote Kill Flags Surface In Kindle
Android Application Development
Magento Beginner's Guide
Writing For Video Game Genres
Is Salacious Content Driving E-Book Sales?
Reading the New York Times On a Kindle 2
Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books?
A Look Back At Kurzweil's Predictions For 2009
Sneak Peek At Neal Stephenson's "Anathem"
Amazon Culls "Offensive" Books From Search System
William Gibson's AGRIPPA Recovered and Revealed
An Appeal In the "Harry Potter Lexicon" Case
J. K. Rowling Wins $6,750 In Infringement Case
Authors Guild President Wants To End Royalty-Free TTS On Kindle
Learning To Read With Click and Jane
Drupal 6 Social Networking
The Big Questions
Tools & Surprises For a Tech Book Author?
Non-Profit Org Claims Rights In Library Catalog Data
Pirate Yourself, Become a Best-Seller
Learning To Profit From Piracy
xkcd To Be Released In Book Form
Why Your e-Books Are No Longer Yours
Lose Your Amazon Account and Your Kindle Dies
100 Years of Copyright Hysteria
Asimov Estate Authorizes New I, Robot Books
For September, Book-Related Apps Overtook Games On iPhone
Google Files a Revised Books Settlement Proposal
Hearst Launching Kindle Competitor and Platform "By Publishers, For Publishers"
Lulu Introduces DRM
Good Deep-Knowledge Analog Design Books?
Reading Guide To AI Design & Neural Networks?
Was This the First CC Community-Edited Novel?
New Tolkien Book Released 'The Children of Hurin'
James Boyle's New Book Under CC License
OLPC and CC Free Content Drive
On the Economics of the Kindle
Good Physics Books For a Math PhD Student?
Why Kindle 2's Screen Took 12 Years and $150 Million
Bookworm ePub Reader Gets Boost From O'Reilly
World's Oldest Bible Going Online
MIT Press Book On Open Source Now Free
Amazon Delaying Public Domain Submissions On Kindle
Neal Stephenson's "Diamond Age" To Be Miniseries
DRM Causes Piracy
Open Source Textbooks For California
Book Publishers Making the Same Mistakes as Record Labels?
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 Veteran GM's First Impressions of D&D 4th Edition
Adobe's ADEPT DRM Broken
Advice On Creating an Open Source Textbook?
Ajax Design Patterns
Amazon Expands Kindle To the PC
Amazon Hobbles Features For International Kindle
Amazon Insists Publishers Use Their On-Demand Printer
Amazon Sued Over E-Book DRM Patent
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 Acerbic Look At the Future of Reading
An Ethical Question Regarding Ebooks
Ancient Books Go Online
Asus Plans Dual-Display E-Reader
Author Encourages Users to Pirate His Book
Becoming Agile
Blackwell Launches Print-On-Demand Trial In the UK
Boiling Down Books, Algorithmically
Book Recommendations For Maths To Astrophysics?
Book Review: OpenGL Shading Language (3rd Edition)
Book review: Beautiful Security
Book review: Drupal 6 Social Networking
Books, ATF, DEA, Homework Censored by Boston WiFi
British Library Puts Oldest Surviving Bible Online
Cacti 0.8 Network Monitoring
California To Move To Online Textbooks
Classic Books of Science?
Colfer Asked To Write Sixth HHGTTG Book
Comic Books Improve Early Childhood Literacy
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
David Foster Wallace an Apparent Suicide
Devices To Take Textbooks Beyond Text
DoJ Recommends NY Court Reject Google Book Deal
Don't Take Notes In the Bookstore
Douglas Hofstadter Looks At the Future
EFF Urges Pressure On Google Over Book Search
Entertainment Weekly Bemoans Lack of Great Science Books
Excerpt From Arthur C. Clarke's Last Work
Expensive Books Inspire P2P Textbook Downloads
Fraud Threat Halts Knuth's Hexadecimal-Dollar Checks
French Fine Amazon For Free Shipping
Gen Y Hits the Library the Most -- But Not For Books
German Book Publishers Cool To E-Book Market
German Wikipedia To Be Published As a Book
Good PDF Reader Device With Internet Browsing?
Google Accused of Violating Copyright In China
Google Apps Hacks: Review
Google Books As "Train Wreck" For Scholars
Google Offering Print Versions of Online Books
Google Takes On Amazon With Own E-Book Store
Google To Remove "Inappropriate" Books From Digital Library
Google's Struggle To Reach Authors — of Every Book Ever Written
Harry Potter Leaked Via Handheld Camera
Has Sci-Fi Run Out of Steam?
Hearst Launching Kindle Competitor
In Trial, Kindles Disappointing University Users
Intel's New E-Reader For the Visually Impaired
Internet Archive Puts 1.6M E-Books On OLPC Laptops
Internet Archive Seeks Same Online Book Rights As Google
Ivy League Computer Science Curricula Exposed
J.G. Ballard Dies at Age 78
Jeff Bezos Offers Apology For Erasing 1984
Kindle 2 Tear-Down Reveals Price of Components
Kindle 2 Tear-Down Reveals Price of Components
Kindle Goes Mainstream, Endorsed By Oprah
Kindle, Zune DRM Restrictions Coming Into Focus
Librarians Express Concern Over Google Books
Looking At Kindle Pricing, Business Models and Source Code
Malcolm Gladwell Challenges the Idea of "Free"
Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" Due In September
New Bill Proposes Open Source Requirement for Publicly Funded Books
New Explanation For the Industrial Revolution
New Hitchhiker's Guide Book "Not Very Funny"
New Wheel of Time Author Chosen
New Wheel of Time Book — Chapter One Online, Released Oct 27
No, David Pogue, Ebook Piracy Is Not a Given
Novelists On the E-Book Experience
Offline Wikipedia Reader For iRex Iliad
Open Library Project Takes Flight
Open Source Textbook For Computer Literacy?
Open-Source College Textbooks Gaining Mindshare
Opting Out of the Google Books Settlement, Pro & Con
Oregon's New Censorship Law Challenged In Court
Original Shakespeare Portrait Discovered, Disputed
Orson Scott Card Blasts J.K. Rowling's Lawsuit
Plagiarizing Wikipedia For Profit
Professor Wins $240K In Fair Use Dispute
Project Gutenberg Volunteers Partial IMSLP Hosting
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
Service Oriented Architecture with Java
Sony Takes Aim At Amazon's Kindle
Spring Design Sues Barnes & Noble Over Nook IP
Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions
Tech Publisher O'Reilly Slashes Jobs
The Best and Worst Tech-Book Publishers?
The Case For Perpetual Copyright
The Home Library Problem Solved
The Kindle Killer Arrives
The Technology of Neuromancer After 25 Years
The Tell-All Campus Tour
Thomson Reuters Sues Over Open-Source Endnote-Alike Zotero
Tor Books Is Giving Away E-Books
U of Michigan and Amazon To Offer 400,000 OOP Books
Understanding Privacy
Using Social Networking Tools to Write a Book
What Belongs In a High School Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit Class?
What Can I Do About Book Pirates?
Which Computer Books For Prisoners?
Wikipedia In Your Pocket, $99
eReader.com Limits E-book Sales To US Citizens
reCAPTCHA Hard At Work, Rescuing Fading Texts
CSS: The Missing Manual
Heinlein's Last Novel Coming in September
Fantasy Author Robert Jordan Passes Away
Amazon's Ebook The Future of Reading?
Big Ten Schools Recommit to Google Books Project
Book Publishers Abandoning DRM
Book Publishers Agree to Online Browsing
Borders Closes the Books on Amazon
Can Architects Save Libraries from the Internet?
Carnegie Mellon's Digital Library Exceeds 1.5 Million Books
Carnegie Mellon's Digital Library Exceeds 1.5 Million Books
Deathly Hallows / OOTP Movie Discussion
Fill Out CAPTCHAs, Digitize Books At The Same Time
Google Working To Make 'iPod/iTunes for Books'
Group Hopes to Rename Street After Douglas Adams
Hands-On With The Kindle
Kindle Versus The iPhone
Legend of the Syndicate