Digital Nonlinear Editing:  Editing Film and Video on the desktop - Thomas A. Ohanian
Nonlinear editing details the procedural, creative, and technical fundamentals of editing moving images within a computer-based, interactive environment. Readers will understand not only what nonlinear editing is and how it works, but also how such systems can be used to achieve both greater creative flexibility and cost and time savings.

Being Digital - Nicholas Negroponte
The founder of MIT's Media Lab decodes the mysteries surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality and the internet. He forecasts the direction of our technological change and what being digital will mean for the way we live.

The Technique of Film and Video Editing:  Theory and Practice - Ken Dancyger
Highlights the history, theory, and aesthetics of film and video editing.

First Cut : Conversations with Film Editors - Gabriella Oldham
Interviews and conversations with more than 20 respected Film Editors.

In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing - Walter Murch, Francis Ford Coppola 
As fun to read as it is informative, from a master of the craft.

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls - Peter Biskind
Smart and scandalous, this is the best book yet on Hollywood in the 1970s, when Young Turks like Scorsese, Spielberg, Lucas, and Coppola were reinventing cinema.

The Avid Digital Editing Room Handbook - Tony Solomons 
Written by an editor, for other editors, this book makes the Avid easy to understand.  Indispensable in the heat of the battle.

The Film Editing Room Handbook:  How to Manage the Near Chaos of the Cutting Room - Norman Hollyn
A classic that gets down to basics. Hollyn covers everything from editing on 35 to the nitty-gritty of the digital workflow.  A must for anyone working in film today.  Hollyn even includes such indispensables as sample forms for everything from Telecine specs to sound transfer and cut lists.

Nonlinear - A Field Guide to Digital Video and Film Editing - Michael Rubin
If you've ever had trouble understanding the ins and outs of digital, this is the book for you. Regardless of the level you're coming from, or the system you're working on, Nonlinear can help you.

Avid Editing, A Guide for Beginning and Intermediate Users - Sam Kauffman 

The Avid Handbook, Techniques for the Avid Media Composer and Avid Express - Steve Bayes

Timecode: A User's Guide - J. D. Ratcliff
Theory and technical standards of time & control codes for film and videotape. Includes the problems presented when using nonlinear postproduction technology.