Hacker News with Generative AI: Ebooks

Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover (standardebooks.org)
Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.
Ebooks, Public Domain, Open Source, Volunteer Projects, Digital Publishing
1213 points by tosh 20 days ago | 247 comments
Apple Hit with $5B Class Action Lawsuit over EBooks Availability (macrumors.com)
A lawsuit filed against Apple in California this week accuses the company of violating the state's false advertising law and other consumer laws, by intentionally misleading customers into thinking that they are purchasing digital e-books from the Apple Books app in perpetuity, when instead they are only purchasing revokable licenses to the books.
Lawsuits, Apple, Ebooks, Consumer Law
5 points by tosh 24 days ago | 0 comments
Extracting content from an LCP “protected” ePub (shkspr.mobi)
As Cory Doctorow once said "Any time that someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you but won't give you the key, that lock's not there for you."
Ebooks, Open Source
198 points by ColinWright 41 days ago | 66 comments
Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks (the-ebook-reader.com)
Amazon recently changed the wording on their website when it comes to buying Kindle ebooks.
Amazon, Ebooks, Kindle
467 points by DavideNL 62 days ago | 346 comments
Auto-Download Your Kindle Books Before February 26th (hackaday.com)
With the news that Amazon will no longer be allowing users to download their Kindle books after February 26th, many are scrambling to download their books before it’s too late.
Amazon, Kindle, Ebooks, Technology
14 points by lxm 66 days ago | 2 comments
Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books (theverge.com)
Starting on February 26th, 2025, Amazon is removing a feature from its website allowing you to download purchased books to a computer and then copy them manually to a Kindle over USB.
Amazon, Kindle, Ebooks
126 points by marban 70 days ago | 107 comments
Amazon is closing USB access in Kindle that made it easy to remove DRM (androidpolice.com)
Amazon, Kindle, DRM, Ebooks, Technology
53 points by isaacfrond 71 days ago | 25 comments
Tell HN: O'Reilly sells DRM-free eBooks again (ebooks.com)
O’Reilly’s mission is to change the world by sharing the knowledge of innovators.
Ebooks, DRM, Publishing
35 points by Kerrick 77 days ago | 4 comments
AI-Generated Slop Is Already in Your Public Library (404media.co)
Librarians say that taxpayers are already paying for low quality AI-generated ebooks in public libraries.
Artificial Intelligence, Libraries, Ebooks
7 points by latexr 81 days ago | 0 comments
Standard Ebooks Public Domain Day 2025 in Literature (standardebooks.org)
Happy Public Domain Day!
Public Domain, Books, Literature, Ebooks
141 points by WithinReason 114 days ago | 25 comments
Standard Ebooks: Browse U.S. public domain artwork (standardebooks.org)
You can help Standard Ebooks by submitting new public domain artwork to add to this catalog for use in future ebooks. For free access to the submission form, contact the Editor-in-Chief.
Public Domain, Artwork, Ebooks, Digital Libraries
21 points by robin_reala 119 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Convert ePub to audio files (github.com/rafael1mc)
Convert ePUB into audio files.
Software, Audiobooks, Ebooks
45 points by rafael1mc 124 days ago | 9 comments
Getting Real eBook for Free (37signals.com)
Want to build a successful web app? Then it's time to Get Real. Getting Real is a smaller, faster, better way to build software.
Software Development, Web Applications, Ebooks, Free Resources
24 points by alexzeitler 150 days ago | 3 comments
Why are librarians up in arms over ebooks? (rte.ie)
Ireland's public libraries are hugely popular with millions of visitors each year and academic libraries are an essential part of third level education.
Libraries, Ebooks, Ireland
9 points by austinallegro 178 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Epublifier – scrape pages (books, manuals) for offline reading (github.com/maoserr)
Converts some webnovels to epub format
Web Scraping, Ebooks, Software, Offline Reading, Webnovels
290 points by maoserr 187 days ago | 43 comments
When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist Ebooks (2016) (medium.com)
Ebooks, Publishing, Digital Content, Backlist
110 points by tomodachi94 253 days ago | 90 comments
Planet eBook: free literature for your device (planetebook.com)
Books, Ebooks, Literature, Reading
64 points by surprisetalk 271 days ago | 20 comments
The Fadedpage – "free ebooks forever" (fadedpage.com)
Ebooks, Digital Media, Free Resources
13 points by temporarely 331 days ago | 1 comments