eBooks
TikTok Users Are Showing Readers How To Game Amazon’s Ebook Return Policy
Independent authors claim the viral trend is costing them royalties and nonrefundable delivery fees.
Every Teen in the US Can Now Get Free Access to Banned Books
In response to book bans targeting Black and LGBTQ+ people, the Brooklyn Public Library is offering digital library cards to anyone ages 13 to 21.
Ebook Services Are Bringing Unhinged Conspiracy Books into Public Libraries
Librarians say Holocaust deniers, antivaxxers, and other conspiracy theorists are being featured in the catalogs of a popular ebook lending service.
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.