Art Cockerill obituary
Other lives: Engineer and writer who established the technical publishing company Delta Tech Systems
Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing review – did tech change literary style?
Frank Herbert on his Boeing, Stephen King on his Wang, and Philip Roth worrying that writing would become too easy … Matthew Kirschenbaum’s account of literature in the digital age
Does Love & Friendship improve Jane Austen’s ending?
Whit Stillman’s latest film is based on a little-known novella written early in Austen’s career. Will it work on screen, and is it worth reading today?
Bookslut was born in an era of internet freedom. Today’s web has killed it
The books community that my site joined was driven by enthusiasm not clicks, goodwill and not money – and that culture has gone
Authors Guild denied appeal to stop Google scanning books
The US Authors Guild’s appeal against the earlier ruling that allows the tech giant to scan millions of books under ‘fair use’ has been rejected by the Supreme Court
This celebrity injunction will probably rebound – a case of the ‘Streisand effect’
As a Scottish newspaper publishes details of a sex scandal, when does a legal fight to ensure privacy become a pointless exercise to restrict free speech?
Lena Dunham to launch publishing imprint Lenny
Girls creator will join collaborator Jenni Konner and publisher Random House on ‘voice-driven’ list spinning off from their eponymous website
One Direction fan-fiction author Anna Todd launches app for her own fans
Writer of the After series promises that she’ll involve her readers in future books, while answering their questions in new mobile community
Amazon’s bookstores should be celebrated, not feared
The web giant’s move into bricks-and-mortar bookselling has upset many in the books community – but there is much to praise in this innovation
More than 2.5m Minecraft books sold by Egmont Publishing
Book titles which tie in with the game include Blockopedia, a bestseller in the children’s nonfiction category in 2015
Lee Child on Amazon’s real-life bookshops – and why we should be worried
The world’s biggest online retailer wants to invade the high street. What’s in it for them?
Book Depository is coming to Australia – but there’s nothing like a local bookshop
While the Amazon-owned online retailer’s first major step into Australia means more competition, it’s not all doom and gloom for independent booksellers
What apps next? Publishers and developers embrace ‘unprintable’ fiction
Developers and authors explain how they are experimenting with technology to publish ‘unprintable’ books – including a love story told through Google street view and a prison break with swappable recipes
Neil Gaiman to release non-fiction book in May
Author blogs he has finished ‘giant proofread’ of The View from the Cheap Seats, a collection of ‘not every speech, introduction or article I’ve written’
Penguin blames likely job losses on rise of ebooks
Publisher wants to cut 225 jobs from Warwickshire warehouse, where books are distributed, owing to decline in demand