Hacker News with Generative AI: Ebooks

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 1 day 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 19 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 40 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 44 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 47 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 49 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 55 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 58 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 92 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 97 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 102 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 127 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 156 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 165 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 231 days ago | 90 comments

Planet eBook: free literature for your device (planetebook.com)

Books, Ebooks, Literature, Reading

64 points by surprisetalk 249 days ago | 20 comments

The Fadedpage – "free ebooks forever" (fadedpage.com)

Ebooks, Digital Media, Free Resources

13 points by temporarely 309 days ago | 1 comments