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The online shop Book Depository is due to close at the end of April, vendors and publishing partners have been told. This comes after the bookseller’s parent company Amazon announced it had decided to “eliminate” a number of positions across its Device… Continue reading Amazon To Close Book Depository Online Shop
An anonymous reader shares this report from the Washington Post:
Steve Jobs never lived to be an old wise man.
But running Apple and Pixar, tumbling and thriving, earned him a lot of wisdom in his 56 years. Now, a small group of his family, friends … Continue reading Steve Jobs Has a New ‘Memoir’, to Be Published More than 11 Years After His Death
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Late Tuesday night, the Missouri House of Representatives voted for a state operating budget with a $0 line for public libraries. While the budget still needs to work its way through the Senate and … Continue reading Missouri Reps Vote To Completely Defund State’s Public Libraries
My latest book continues to sell well. Its ranking hovers between 1,500 and 2,000 on Amazon. It’s been spied in airports.
Reviews are consistently good. I have been enjoying giving podcast interviews. It all feels pretty good right now.
You can o… Continue reading A Hacker’s Mind News
A federal judge on Monday will weigh pleas by four major book publishers to stop an online lending library from freely offering digital copies of books, in a case that raises novel questions about digital-library rights and the reach of copyright law t… Continue reading Online-Books Lawsuit Tests Limits of Libraries in Digital Age
15 of the most useful sources for books you may access and read on a Chromebook — and nine of them are free!
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The auction house Sotheby’s is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash in a big way, reports Forbes. Stephenson teamed with special effects and prop company Weta Workshop to create “a bespoke piece, a cultural and historical ar… Continue reading Neal Stephenson Celebrates ‘Snow Crash’ 30th Anniversary by Auctioning Sword with NFT, Manuscripts
Adam Shostack, the author of “Threat Modeling: Designing for Security”, and the co-author of “The New School of Information Security”, recently launched his new book – “Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn From Star Wars”. In this Help Net S… Continue reading Introducing the book – Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn From Star Wars
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: On January 1, 2023, a swath of books, films, and songs entered the public domain. The public domain is not a place — it refers to all the creative works not protected by an intellectual property la… Continue reading Librarians Are Finding Thousands of Books No Longer Protected By Copyright Law
Tuesday was the official publication date of A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back. It broke into the 2000s on the Amazon best-seller list.
Reviews in the New York Times, Cory Doctorow’s blog, Science, and the Associated Press.
I wrote essays related to the book for CNN and John Scalzi’s blog.
Two podcast interviews: Keen On and Lawfare. And a written interview for the Ash Center at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Lots more coming, I believe. Get your copy here.
And—last request—right now there’s one Amazon review, and it’s not a good one. If people here could leave reviews, I would appreciate it…