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• Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amy E. Earhart (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), ed. by Raymond George Siemens and Susan Schreibman (frame-dependent HTML at digitalhumanities.org)
• Fanfiction and the Author: How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Texts (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2017), by Judith Fathallah (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Tar for Mortar: The Library of Babel and the Dream of Totality (Earth: BABEL Working Group, c2018), by Jonathan Basile
  • PDF with commentary at punctumbooks.com
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE

• The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age (c2011), ed. by Amy E. Earhart and Andrew Jewell (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Laura Shackelford (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Future of the Internet, and How to Stop It (interactive electronic edition, 2008), by Jonathan Zittrain (HTML with commentary at Yale University Press)
• The Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from September 11 (2003), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• E-Mutualism? Or the Tragedy of the Dot.Commons? (2000), by Bill Thompson (HTML at medium.com)
• Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh (third edition, 1995), by Adam C. Engst (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Internet Starter Kit for Windows (second edition, 1995), by Adam C. Engst (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Your Internet Consultant: The FAQs of Life Online (1994), by Kevin Savetz (HTML at savetz.com)
• Exploring the Internet: A Technical Travelogue (c1993), by Carl Malamud (PDF and Epub with commentary at public.resource.org)
• The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet (1987), by Ed Krol (Gutenberg text)
• Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (2005), by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig (HTML with commentary at gmu.edu)
• Implementing CIFS: The Common Internet File System (c2003), by Christopher R. Hertel (illustrated HTML at ubiqx.org)
• Spreading the Word on the Internet: 16 Answers to 4 Questions (2003), ed. by Christiane Hardy and Christian Möller (HTML at osce.org)
• Project Looking Forward: Sketching the Future of Copyright in a Networked World (1998), by I. Trotter Hardy (PDF at LOC; 1.3 MB)
• MBONE: Multicasting Tomorrow's Internet (1996), by Kevin Savetz, Neil Randall, and Yves Lepage (HTML at savetz.com)
• Tocqueville and Democracy in the Internet Age (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2014), by Christopher Jon Delogu (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet (originally published 1997; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Shawn Rosenheim (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Netiquette (online edition, revised 1997), by Virginia Shea (HTML at albion.com)
• Internet Publishing with Acrobat (c1996), by Gordon Kent (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research (unclassified version, slightly redacted; Fort Meade, MD: Center for Digital Content, National Security Agency, 2007), by Robyn Winder, contrib. by Charlie Speight (PDF at nsa.gov)
• EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet (various editions from the 1990s), by Adam Gaffin (texts with commentary at eff.org)
• The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking (2nd edition), by Tracy L. LaQuey (HTML at obs-us.com)
• Zen and the Art of the Internet, by Brendan Kehoe (1st. ed., HTML at Indiana)
• Living Networks: Leading Your Company, Customers, and Partners in the Hyper-Connected Economy (c2002), by Ross Dawson (PDF files with commentary at livingnetworksbook.com)
• Hate and the Internet (New York: American Jewish Committee, ca. 1999), by Kenneth S. Stern (PDF at ajcarchives.org)
• The Strategist and the Web: A Guide to Internet Resources (1996), by James Kievit and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• The Strategist and the Web Revisited: An Updated Guide to Internet Resources (1996), by James Kievit and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

• Cyberidentities: Canadian and European Presence in Cyberspace (c1999), ed. by L. d' Haenens (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2008), ed. by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), ed. by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Cyber-Nationalism in China: Challenging Western Media Portrayals of Internet Censorship in China (c2012), by Ying Jiang (PDF and Epub with commentary at Adelaide)

• Internet Governance: Asia-Pacific Perspectives (2005), ed. by Daniel Butt (PDF at apdip.net)

• Cyberidentities: Canadian and European Presence in Cyberspace (c1999), ed. by L. d' Haenens (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• Pirate Cinema (2012), by Cory Doctorow (multiple formats with commentary at craphound.com)
• Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (2005), by Cory Doctorow (multiple formats with commentary at craphound.com)
• PeaceMaker: A Thriller (c2004), by Dan Ronco (HTML with commentary at danronco.com)

• Internet Governance: Asia-Pacific Perspectives (2005), ed. by Daniel Butt (PDF at apdip.net)
• Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), ed. by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2008), ed. by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Science and Technology on the Internet: An Instructional Guide (Berkeley and San Carlos, CA: Library Solutions Press, c1995), by Gail P. Clement, contrib. by Anne Grodzins Lipow (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Internet Myth: From the Internet Imaginary to Network Ideologies (London: University of Westminster Press, c2020), by Paolo Bory (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)
• A Brief History of the Internet (incomplete draft, but last known to be published; 1995), by Michael Hart, contrib. by Max Fuller (Gutenberg text)
• Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet (prepublication versions), by Michael Hauben and Ronda Hauben (HTML at Columbia)

• The Fight for the Future: How People Defeated Hollywood and Saved the Internet-- For Now (c2013), by Edward Lee (PDF with commentary at thefightforthefuture.com)
• The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018), by Aaron Perzanowski and Jason M. Schultz (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), by Daniel J. Solove (PDF files with commentary at GWU)
• The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (New York: Random House, c2001), by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at the-future-of-ideas.com)
• The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2012), by Hector Postigo (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.