ebooks

Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

 
By James Folta  February 19, 2025
The Hub

This is not a drill, folks. Indie bookstores can sell ebooks now.

By Brittany Allen  January 28, 2025
Prison Banned Books Week

Lifeline, Cash-Grab, Tool for Censorship: Three Incarcerated Readers on eBooks in Prison

By Literary Hub  September 20, 2024
Lit Hub Questionnaire

Akwaeke Emezi Doesn’t Outline Books and Waits for Their Cat to Sleep Before Writing

By Literary Hub  June 27, 2024
The Hub

In a surprise to no one, Gen Z prefers printed books over e-books.

By Jonny Diamond  March 14, 2023
The Hub

Hundreds of authors signed a letter in support of libraries’ digital rights.

By Corinne Segal  September 29, 2022
The Hub

Good news for authors: Amazon will no longer let people return ebooks after reading them in full.

By Jessie Gaynor  September 22, 2022
The Hub

Jean-Luc Godard disliked e-books before they even existed.

By Emily Temple  September 13, 2022
The Hub

Oh great. NFT eBooks of the Gutenberg Bible sold for $100,000 in a single day.

By Jonny Diamond  July 28, 2022
The Hub

Free Maus? Digital access to banned books is important but writers still need to eat!

By Jonny Diamond  February 14, 2022
The Hub

Dear Amazon: Why can’t we sell our ebook on your platform?

By The Massachusetts Review  March 26, 2021
The Hub

Are digital kids’ books too distracting?

By Jonny Diamond  March 22, 2021
Keen On

Are We Starving Our Brains by Going Digital?

By Keen On  February 11, 2021
Reading

Will Self: How Should We Read?

By Will Self  January 14, 2021
The Hub

2020 was a great year for at least one thing: digital book loans from public libraries.

By Jessie Gaynor  January 7, 2021
The Hub

Turns out men give up on books they don’t like way more easily than women do.

By Emily Temple  April 28, 2020
The Hub

These are 2019’s most-borrowed digital books.

By Jessie Gaynor  January 8, 2020
Op-Ed

Against the Attention Economy: Short Stories Are Not Quick Literary Fixes

By Brandon Taylor  December 6, 2017
Changing the World

Margaret Atwood on Magic, Technology, and Changing the World

By Literary Hub  October 20, 2016
End of Year Lists

The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 15 to 6

By Literary Hub  December 29, 2015
Conversations

So You’ve Decided to Launch an Imprint…

By Literary Hub  December 17, 2015
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