Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity, NYU Press, 2001. (ISBN978-0814788073)
The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System, Basic Books, 2004. (ISBN978-0465089857)
Rewiring the Nation: The Place of Technology in American Studies, co-edited with Carolyn de la Peña, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. (ISBN978-0801886515)
Vaidhyanathan speaking at GeorgetownThe Googlization of Everything -- and Why We Should Worry, University of California Press, 2011. (ISBN978-0520258822). The text was in open development on a blog, launched September 27, 2007 in collaboration with the Institute for the Future of the Book.
Intellectual Property: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2017. (ISBN9780195372779)
Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us And Undermines Democracy, Oxford University Press, 2018. (ISBN978-0190841164)