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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
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
An Appeal In the "Harry Potter Lexicon" Case
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
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
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?
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
An Acerbic Look At the Future of Reading
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
Neal Stephenson's "Diamond Age" To Be Miniseries
New Explanation For the Industrial Revolution
No, David Pogue, Ebook Piracy Is Not a Given
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 Your e-Books Are No Longer Yours
World's Oldest Bible Going Online
Anathem
Dojo: Using the Dojo JavaScript Library
Mastering Regular Expressions
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
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
Science Fiction Writers Write DMCA Takedowns
Ten Strangely Cruel Science Experiments
Beginning PHP and MySQL 5.0
CSS: The Missing Manual
Ender in Exile
Google: The Missing Manual, Second Edition
Head Rush Ajax
The IDA Pro Book
Ubuntu Kung Fu
User Mode Linux
Who Controls the Internet?
Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax
Beginning Ubuntu Linux
IPv6 Essentials
Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring
Netroots Politics
Nmap Network Scanning
OpenGL Distilled
PHP5 CMS Framework Development
Pro MySQL
The Manga Guide to Statistics
The Science of Secrecy
Ubuntu Hacks
Why Software Sucks
Solving the Home Library Problem?
Bookstore Owner Burns Books
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 Insists Publishers Use Their On-Demand Printer
Amazon's Kindle Sells Out In 5.5 Hours
An Ethical Question Regarding Ebooks
Astronomy Hacks
Beck and Andres on Extreme Programming
Big Tobacco Funded Anti-Global Warming Messages
Boiling Down Books, Algorithmically
Book Recommendations For Maths To Astrophysics?
Bulletproof Tool For Golden Age Browsing?
Colfer Asked To Write Sixth HHGTTG Book
Competition In the Free Textbook Market
Computer Textbooks For High Schoolers?
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
Ivy League Computer Science Curricula Exposed
Jonathan Lethem On Plagiarism
Kindle Goes Mainstream, Endorsed By Oprah
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
Previously Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Photographed
Programming Ruby
Ray Bradbury Turns 88
Relics of Science History For Sale At Christie's
Researchers Demo Flippable-Page E-book Reader
Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens?
Silencing a Hard Drive Using Household Items
Storing Data For the Next 1,000 Years
The Case For Perpetual Copyright
The Complete FreeBSD 10 Years Old, Now Free
The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes?
The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart
The Tell-All Campus Tour
The Weblog Handbook
Thomson Reuters Sues Over Open-Source Endnote-Alike Zotero
Tools For Understanding Code?
Which Computer Books For Prisoners?
reCAPTCHA Hard At Work, Rescuing Fading Texts
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Release Date Announced
Google Book Search Settlement Receiving Criticism
Have You Changed Your Opinion On eBook Readers?
2005 Hugo Nominations
Big Ten Schools Recommit to Google Books Project
Book Publishers Agree to Online Browsing
Borders Closes the Books on Amazon
Carnegie Mellon's Digital Library Exceeds 1.5 Million Books
Consumer Electronics Causing 'Death of Childhood'?
Dungeons, Cities, and Psionics
Fill Out CAPTCHAs, Digitize Books At The Same Time
Free Comic Book Day 2006
Google Working To Make 'iPod/iTunes for Books'
Halo Graphic Novel In the Works
HowTo Build a Quality DDR Deck
John Edwards on Open Source Voting Machines
Legend of the Syndicate
The Cult of Kindle
The Dungeons and Dragons Fourth Edition Preview Books
The Future of Love and Sex - Robots
The Happiest Days of Our Lives
Which eBook Reader is the Best?
You Too Can Be An Amazon Bestseller
An Argument Against Software Patents
Beating the College Bubble
Blown to Bits
Building Scalable Web Sites
CSS: The Definitive Guide
Computer Network Time Synchronization
GPU Gems 3
Linux Annoyances For Geeks
Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality
MySQL Pocket Reference
Open Source Game Development
OpenGL ES 2.0 Programming Guide
OpenGL SuperBible
PGP & GPG
PHP Hacks
Pro PHP Security
Retro Gaming Hacks
Terry Pratchett Knighted
The Business of Software
Visual Basic 2005 Jumpstart