George RR Martin and Apple announce interactive Game of Thrones books collaboration
A Game of Thrones: Enhanced Edition, available through Apple from Thursday, promises ‘a world of additional content’ including sigils, family trees and glossaries
Google swallows 11,000 novels to improve AI’s conversation
As writers learn that tech giant has processed their work without permission, the Authors Guild condemns ‘blatantly commercial use of expressive authorship’
How Kickstarter became one of the biggest powers in publishing
The crowdfunding site is now launching more books than all but the very largest publishers. Richard Lea finds out how a resource for small enterprises is making some big changes
EU proposals could see news publishers paid by Google and Facebook
Measures are part of a series of planned European commission changes designed to strengthen rights of creators and publishers
#Women_writers manifesto aims to build community of female authors
Laurie Garrison’s call to arms is intended to foster collaboration ‘rejecting traditional models of publishing’
Bridget Jones’s Baby on the way into print, Helen Fielding says
To accompany forthcoming film of the same name, the book will recount the bestselling heroine’s ‘somewhat bumpy journey into motherhood’
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