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Ray Bradbury’s e-books were the price of new contracts

Mike Masnick at Techdirt has more details and commentary on why Ray Bradbury’s novels are are becoming available as e-books. Bradbury is noted for his dislike of new technologies, such as video games...

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SF legend Ray Bradbury passes away, leaving a world that seemed to confirm...

As anyone who reads news or social media on the web may have noticed, Ray Bradbury has passed away at the age of 91. Bradbury was a truly great writer, and a great visionary, though I tended not to...

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Bradbury's works to come to ebooks, says editor; ebooks will be available to...

From a article by Staci K. Kramer in PaidContent.  The full article is well worth reading.  Evidently Bradbury changed his mind about ebooks as he got older. HarperCollins is in the midst of preparing...

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Ray Bradbury’s books are finally going digital

For many years, author Ray Bradbury didn’t want his books digitized. But he finally relented before his death in 2011, and allowed arguably his most famous book, Fahrenheit 451, to become an e-book....

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Daily Deal, Aug 10: Amazon offers 16 Ray Bradbury books for $1.99 each

Wow, what a daily deal! Amazon has sixteen Ray Bradbury e-books on sale for $1.99 each, including Something Wicked This Way Comes, Dandelion Wine, The Illustrated Man, and eleven others. The late...

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Ray Bradbury’s home demolished, but home office to be recreated in Indianapolis

The late Ray Bradbury’s house of over fifty years is being torn down. It was purchased in June 2013 for $1.8 million, and the demolition permit was issued December 30th. Apparently the “starchitect”...

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In nod to Ray Bradbury, IETF approves HTTP 451 error code for censorship

You know those numbered web errors that pop up every so often when you can’t find a page you want? The best-known is the 404 “Page not found” error, which some sites have made clever creative uses of....

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Is a home without books always a home without reading?

Please don’t get the wrong idea from this headline. I’m not advocating the elimination of printed books from our homes. I believe that print belongs on our shelves and probably will always be there....

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How did Kurt Vonnegut feel about e-books?

Today I went to visit the IUPUI Barnes & Noble, as I had never yet been there. On the way back, I happened to pass near the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. Vonnegut was a lifelong resident of...

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Review: Hoopla Digital is a great ‘add-on’ for your library

We’ve carried a few stories about Hoopla Digital before—when we discussed its app adding Chromecast support last year, or when it added e-books in 2014. Hoopla is a digital media streaming service...

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