One of the best things you can do for your child is to instill a love of reading at an early age. Reading can improve their language and writing skills, encourage a healthy imagination, and increase ...

You can find free audiobooks without subscribing to subscription services like Audible. Here are seven of the best places to download free audiobooks.

With so many books in the world, reading can be an endlessly expensive hobby. But thanks to the internet and the magic of libraries, there are a ton of ways to read your favorite books for free, from ...

One of the casualties of coronavirus-related social distancing measures has been public libraries, which are shut down in many communities around the world. This week, the Internet Archive, an online ...

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I recently blogged about the availability of Common Java Cookbook as an open and freely available book focusing on Apache Commons. I also pointed out in that blog post that I had learned of the ...

Don’t be a pirate! There's an endless amount of public domain content on the internet, if you know where to look. Dan Ackerman Editorial Director / Computers and Gaming Dan Ackerman leads CNET's ...

National Emergency Library had provided free, unfettered access to more than 1 million e-books, but it's shutting down after a lawsuit by four publishers. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET ...

Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette and Wiley accused the nonprofit of piracy for making over 1 million books free online. By Elizabeth A. Harris A group of publishers sued Internet Archive ...

The National Emergency Library is one of those well-intentioned ideas that was destined to get pushback. The brainchild of Internet Archive, the platform made north of 1.3 million books available for ...

A federal judge sided in favor of the four leading publishers in the U.S. who sued the Internet Archive for scanning and lending out numerous digital copies of copyrighted books for free during the ...