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Amazon redacts one-star reviews of Hillary Clinton’s What Happened

Hundreds of damning verdicts on memoir of 2016 presidential race, posted within hours of publication, have been removed by the online bookseller

From Evelyn Waugh to Elizabeth I: Vivien Leigh’s eclectic library up for auction

Personal inscriptions from Winston Churchill, Orson Welles and AA Milne in the actor and avid reader’s library are expected to sell for more than £500,000

Cool Britannia symbolised hope – but all it delivered was a culture of inequality

It’s 20 years since Tony Blair reshaped Britain’s economy around the arts, yet the project’s legacy is an exploitative sector dominated by people from an astonishingly small demographic pool

The young ‘Instapoet’ Rupi Kaur: from social media star to bestselling writer

Rupi Kaur’s first book, Milk and Honey, sold 1.4 million copieS

‘Show me the money!’: the self-published authors being snapped up by Hollywood

After the success of self-published authors like Andy Weir and EL James, Hollywood is scooping up the rights to books as fast as it can. But why – and is it always good for the author?

Justice served: comic creators announce Judge Dredd TV show

After two Hollywood failures, 2000AD’s British publisher Rebellion is planning ‘one of the most expensive TV shows the UK has ever seen’ with Mega-City One

JK Rowling’s ego akin to Kim Kardashian’s, says Joanna Trollope

City of Friends author claims Harry Potter creator’s ‘insatiable desire’ to air opinions on Twitter is threat to literary industry

Make it your hone: the ebook that you are forced to edit as you read

On each page of A Universe Explodes by Tea Uglow, owners are required to add one word and remove two – which amounts to an odd reading experience

‘Screen fatigue’ sees UK ebook sales plunge 17% as readers return to print

Consumer sales down to £204m last year and are at lowest level since 2011 – when Amazon Kindle sales first took off in UK

Seattle is the testing ground as Amazon eyes its next big idea

The retail giant is expanding into the physical world with a series of trials in Seattle. First came a book shop, but the real prize is in grocery

Alec Baldwin accuses HarperCollins of sloppy editing on his memoir

Claiming that his memoir, Nevertheless, contains “SEVERAL typos and errors”, the actor has decided to publish his own clarifications on Facebook

Russia blamed for Amazon listing of anti-Trump book

Historian Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny, which offers lessons on resisting repressive rule, provokes fake book listing that repeats slogan seen on pro-Putin posters

Paperback fighter: sales of physical books now outperform digital titles

It can be cheaper to buy the physical copy of a book than a digital download thanks to changes in Amazon’s deal with publishers

Ebook sales continue to fall as younger generations drive appetite for print

Nielsen survey finds UK ebook sales declined by 4% in 2016, the second consecutive year digital has shrunk

Microsoft pilots ebook sales in Windows 10

Publishers offer cautious welcome after leak shows software giant has included a bookselling section in a new build of its operating system

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  • Meta AI agent’s instruction causes large sensitive data leak to employees
  • ‘It does feel like an intimidation campaign’: why is US tech giant Palantir suing a small Swiss magazine?
  • The Oscars red carpet was in a skip. Then a woman took it home for her flat. What else could be repurposed?
  • Why is the FBI buying people’s location data and how is it using the information?
  • Cryptocurrency firms suffer heavy losses in Illinois primaries after spending big
  • Indian film board blocks release of Oscar-nominated Gaza drama The Voice of Hind Rajab
  • Ready or Not 2: Here I Come review – comedy horror sequel goes big and you should stay home
  • Essex police pause facial recognition camera use after study finds racial bias
  • The best pressure washers in the UK for cleaning garden furniture and patios – tested
  • ‘My taste is superb. My eyes are exquisite’: Dianne Wiest’s 20 best film performances – ranked!
  • Prolonged high oil prices could ‘crimp’ AI boom, WTO warns
  • PwC partners who fail to embrace AI have no future at firm, US CEO warns
  • The Rite of Spring / Mirror review – glitchy Stravinsky and digital doppelgangers from Alexander Whitley
  • Glamming up ‘dirty war’: teens in Mexico glorify 1970s secret police on TikTok
  • The Killer review – John Woo’s gun-filled melodrama remains a blood-soaked classic
  • US startup advertises ‘AI bully’ role to test patience of leading chatbots
  • Meta on trial over child safety: can it really protect its next generation of users?
  • Midwinter Break review – sad, spiky and brilliantly acted portrait of rupture and rapture
  • ‘The world was hard – this movie was meant to be a hug’: Ugo Bienvenu on his heartwarming eco-fable Arco
  • Trains review – magnetic cine-essay explores the liberation that the locomotive gave us
  • ‘All right mate?’: Amazon pins UK hopes on AI upgrade of Alexa
  • Inside China’s robotics revolution
  • ‘We don’t tell the car what it should do’: my ride in a self-driving taxi
  • Zendaya and Tom Holland: are the gen Z power couple married? Nine things you need to know
  • Instagram worse for mental health than WhatsApp, global study finds
  • Google co-founder spends $45m in fight against California billionaire tax
  • Hunky Jesus review – a hot, oiled-torso Easter from San Francisco’s Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
  • AI software for smart glasses wins £1m prize for technology to help people with dementia
  • Actors, musicians and writers welcome UK U-turn on AI use of copyrighted work
  • BBC expected to name Matt Brittin as director general within days

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