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Victor Noagbodji has written a long post on the subject of writing books for programmers. The article is based mostly on the advice of the legendary Brian Kernighan -

Amazon's Kindle books will soon be readable as content embedded on Web pages and Web page publishers will be able to land affiliate fees for Kindle books they sell to

Earlier this morning Google Books announced a program where rights owners would be given the tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_books_offers_creative_commons_licensing.php'; tweetmeme_source = 'rww'; option to modify their copyright licenses and specify them

How many times have you been unsure about a book, noticed "New York Times Best-Seller" on the cover and then decided to buy a copy? For 75 years, The New

Google Books has had trouble on the content side. Google's approach has been too gung-ho, trying to "digitize the world's books" before publishers were ready for it. It also doesn't

As of today, businesses and individuals can opt out of recieving paper-based phone books in the mail using a new Website called the National Yellow Pages Consumer Choice &

The Node Beginner Book by by Manuel Kiessling is a new Node.js e-book. It's only about 40% done, and is actually more of a long tutorial than a book

Digital piracy. It's an illicit activity undertaken by college students in their dorm rooms or by teenagers in their parents' basements, right? Wrong, according to a recent survey by the

The Internet Archive, in conjunction with 150 libraries, has rolled out a new 80,000 e-book lending collection today on OpenLibrary.org. This means that library patrons with an OpenLibrary account can

Google today announced embeddable previews for all books included in Google's Book Search. Developers can now make use of a set of APIs to embed these previews into any site.