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The best sci-fi movies, books and shows to consume over the holidays
The year 2022 delivered a number of great options in the sci-fi genre in books, TV, movies and podcasts and we gathered them here.
What we bought: Our favorite books of 2022
Here are our favorite books of 2022, as chosen by Engadget readers.
Amazon's updated e-book return policy looks like a big win for authors
In a move that should be a boon to authors, Amazon has updated its e-book return policy to prevent automatic returns on books where more than 10 percent of its content has been read.
Amazon to pull Kindle e-readers and bookstore from China
Amazon is pulling its Kindle e-readers and bookstore from China over the next year, but it says censorship isn't to blame.
Korg’s DIY oscilloscope comes paired with a coffee table book
Korg has unveiled an oscilloscope kit bundle that includes a book full of history and tips.
Amazon's Kindle will finally add ePub support
Amazon’s e-reader will support the ePub format.
Barnes & Noble is finally offering an audiobook service
Barnes & Noble is launching an audiobook service — and it's arguably years late.
The books and movies we’re gifting this year
Here's a list of the best books and movies to give this year, chosen by experts at Engadget.
Google Play Books update brings audio narration to kids titles
Google is adding new audio resource tools to children's ebooks on Play Books including a kid-friendly dictionary and a bigger selection of audiobooks.
Medium will expand into books with its latest acquisition
Medium announced that it’s acquiring Glose, a social reading platform.
'Code Switch' from NPR is Apple's podcast of the year
Apple has chimed in with a selection of the most popular podcasts, audiobooks and books people in the US downloaded through its online stores.
'Ready Player Two' author is going on a virtual book tour in 'Roblox'
'Ready Player Two' author Ernest Cline is going on a book tour inside 'Roblox,' complete with a treasure hunt to win virtual fan gear.
Moog's new coffee table book is filled with tips for synth nerds
'Patch and Tweak with Moog' is a book dedicated to tips, tricks and ideas for the semi-modular Mother family — including the Mother 32, DFAM, Subharmonicon, Grandmother and Matriarch. It's filled with synth history, an inside look at the Moog factory plus interviews with synth icons, musicians and Moog employees.
Alphabet partners with local library to deliver books to students
Students in a Virginia county can order books online and have them dropped off via one of Wing's drones.
Book publishers sue Internet Archive for allegedly enabling piracy
Four major publishers filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive for alleged “willful mass copyright infringement" related to its Open Library.
Sonos can now stream free audiobooks from your local library
Sonos users can now borrow and stream audiobooks from their local libraries thanks to the free Libby app.
iHeart will turn podcasts into books starting with ‘Stuff You Should know’
Plenty of people listen to podcasts on their commute and during work, but iHeartMedia is hoping they can squeeze even more podcast consumption into their days -- possibly before they nod off. The company partnered with Flatiron Books to create a series of titles based on popular podcasts. The first iHeart podcast to get a book adaptation will be the long-running Stuff You Should Know. Subtitled An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things, the book will be written by the show's co-hosts, Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant, and will "answer all the questions readers didn't know they wanted to ask" about everyday objects.
Wikipedia references now include book previews hosted by the Internet Archive
Wikipedia is an incredible resource, but the accuracy of claims published on its pages is sometimes called into question. To improve the site's credibility and usability, the Internet Archive is working to make references easier to follow by linking them to digital copies of books.
Google search pays tribute to 'Wizard of Oz' with a dizzying Easter egg
Google isn't reserving its movie-themed Easter eggs for the latest blockbusters. The internet giant is marking the 80th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz with an Easter egg that reflects the rather turbulent ways Dorothy enters and exits Oz. Search for the movie title and you'll find a certain pair of red slippers Tap those and you'll be spun into a world of sepia search results much like Dorothy's version of Kansas. All the links still work, too. If you'd rather go back to a Technicolor landscape, a certain tornado will take you back if you don't mind a little dizziness.
Spotify is getting its own TV mini-series
The music business has been through a turbulent decade, with dwindling sales, record labels pushing "360 deals" on artists and concert venues beginning to take cuts of merchandise sales. The debates around the ethics of streaming apps are a high-profile example of the industry trying to regain traction, with the rise of Spotify itself soon to be detailed in a scripted TV miniseries, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
