eBooks

Tech

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By Claire Woodcock
Tech

Big Publishers Are Putting The Internet Archive On Trial

07.14.22

By Claire Woodcock
Tech

TikTok Users Are Showing Readers How To Game Amazon’s Ebook Return Policy

06.17.22

By Claire Woodcock
Tech

Every Teen in the US Can Now Get Free Access to Banned Books

04.25.22

By Claire Woodcock
Tech

Ebook Services Are Bringing Unhinged Conspiracy Books into Public Libraries

04.20.22

By Claire Woodcock
Tech

Bugs Allowed Hackers to Hijack Kindle Accounts With Malicious Ebooks

01.21.21

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Life

I Wrote an Ebook to See How Much Easy Money I Could Make Online

08.03.20

By Hayden Vernon
Tech

Hackers Turned Virginia Government Websites Into Elaborate eBooks Scam Pages

05.08.20

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Tech

You Can Now Access 1.4 Million Books for Free Thanks to the Internet Archive

03.25.20

By Maddie Bender
Tech

How the FCC Helped Pave the Way for Predatory Prison Telecoms

11.27.19

By Karl Bode
Tech

One of America’s Largest Publishers Is Screwing Over Libraries

10.31.19

By Matthew Gault
Tech

Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain. You Can Download Them Free

08.06.19

By Matthew Gault

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