eBooks
Bugs Allowed Hackers to Hijack Kindle Accounts With Malicious Ebooks
The flaws that potentially allowed hackers to spend money using victims’ credit cards are now fixed.
I Wrote an Ebook to See How Much Easy Money I Could Make Online
Writing an ebook is often touted as a quick way to make some cash – but is that true if you don't have a blue tick or thousands of Instagram followers?
Hackers Turned Virginia Government Websites Into Elaborate eBooks Scam Pages
Two subdomains of an official Virginia government website were hijacked and enrolled into a eBooks scam.
You Can Now Access 1.4 Million Books for Free Thanks to the Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is temporarily eliminating waitlists for tons of ebooks to create a National Emergency Library open to anyone with an internet connection.
How the FCC Helped Pave the Way for Predatory Prison Telecoms
A company is charging inmates by the minute to read ebooks on “free” tablets. The FCC could have stopped prison telecoms from gaining so much power, but didn’t.
One of America’s Largest Publishers Is Screwing Over Libraries
Libraries are fighting Macmillan Publishers over an ebook embargo that would make borrowing new ebooks much harder for folks.
Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain. You Can Download Them Free
A quirk of copyright law means that millions of books are now free for anyone to read, thanks to some work from the New York Public Library.
Microsoft Ebooks Will Stop Working Because It's Shutting Down a DRM Server
In shutting down its ebook store, Microsoft once again shows how in the modern era, you no longer actually own the things you buy.
Someone Translated the Bible into Emoji for Millennials
Fans of both scripture and cartoon internet hieroglyphics can download the e-book from iTunes.
Get-Rich-on-Uber Ebooks Capture Drivers’ Hope and Desperation
An Amazon cottage industry reveals an Uber driver sideline.
Google Launches eBook Experiments in 'Unprintable Fiction'
Editions At Play brings to life books so digital that they can't be contained by the printed page.
This Erotica Author Has Fetishized Clippy, 'Tetris,' and Pluto as a Giant Penis
Leonard Delaney writes some nasty fiction about tech culture.