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Amazon pulls Warner Bros movies from sales as trade dispute expands

Already in fracas with publisher Hachette, retailer pulls pre-orders such as The Lego Movie to pressure the studio over pricing

Amazon tells customers to shop elsewhere in Hachette row

Row between world's largest distributor of books and publisher over ebook royalties shows no sign of being resolved

Amazon halts sales of some Hachette books as publishing battle escalates

Jeffery Deaver among those speaking out against Amazon's decision to stop selling certain Hachette titles

Heston Blumenthal and ‘rockstar chef’ books help stir sales for Bloomsbury

MasterChef among titles boosting revenues by 12.6%, with marketing campaign set for illustrated Harry Potter editions. By Mark Sweney

Forget suing filesharers: in 2014, anti-piracy efforts follow the money

Infringing Website List is latest attempt by creative industries to squeeze ad revenues of piracy sites. By Stuart Dredge

The big steal: rise of the plagiarist in the digital age

Thanks to the internet, it has never been easier to steal other people's work. There's also a high risk you'll be found out. So why do it? Rhodri Marsden goes in search of a little originality

Charlie Chaplin’s only novel published for the first time

Footlights, the screen legend's unseen prequel in prose to the film Limelight, reflects his sadness at declining stardom

Nosy Crow talks fairytales, reluctant readers and game-like apps for kids

'It's not half of us saying make it really gamey and half saying make it really booky', explains UK publisher. By Stuart Dredge

David Thomson on Tom Rosenthal, publisher of The Biographical Dictionary of Film

I first met Tom Rosenthal in the 1970s in Secker and Warburg's offices in Carlisle Street, Soho

HarperCollins UK boss tells publishers: take storytelling back from digital rivals

Charlie Redmayne warns that publishers must take their space back by going beyond ebooks to apps, games and video

Egmont’s Jelly Pie brings humour to kids with YouTube and mobile games

New community may come from a publisher, but it's starting with digital media rather than books. By Stuart Dredge

Amazon employee rebukes wife over Jeff Bezos biography

Shel Kaphan joins author Brad Stone in answering MacKenzie Bezos' one-star review of 'definitive biography' of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. By Samuel Gibbs

Jeff Bezos’ wife slams ‘misleading’ biography in Amazon review

'Everywhere I can fact check from personal knowledge, I find way too many inaccuracies,' writes MacKenzie Bezos. By Stuart Dredge

Writing on the Wall: Social Media – The First 2000 Years by Tom Standage – review

Why mass media were an aberration in human history. By David Shariatmadari

Bridget Jones’s Diary fans aghast as Helen Fielding kills off Mr Darcy

Extracts from third volume of Bridget Jones's Diary, Mad About the Boy, reveal Bridget is now a widow

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  • NAZA film-makers address threats at documentary’s New York City premiere
  • Godzilla Minus Zero review – spectacular Japanese action continues franchise’s winning streak
  • Australian backlash to datacentres is faux import from US, officials say: ‘We are not the United States’
  • ‘Charming and disarming’ … how Meta’s technology-packed Muse harnesses the power of cuteness
  • Oxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian Library
  • The AI debate is already shaping the 2028 election. Here’s where Democratic hopefuls stand
  • Amazon’s Ring wants to replace local WhatsApp groups. It’s a recipe for curtain-twitching disaster
  • Purple reins: Philippine export ban casts shadow over UK’s love of ube
  • Drones could speed up getting defibrillators to people having cardiac arrests, study suggests
  • Russia strikes at heart of Ukraine’s digital economy with attacks on ISPs and datacentres
  • OpenAI says agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users in latest example of rogue activity
  • Trump and Chinese president Xi end summit without major agreement on AI
  • NHS boss says staff suspected of snooping on patients’ records should be suspended immediately
  • Pope Leo warns of AI threat to humanity at start of three-day France visit
  • OpenAI hack on Australian government reveals anxiety at heart of global artificial intelligence dilemma
  • Always a joker: Magda Szubanski reveals Heath Ledger asked to play her stalker on Kath and Kim
  • Our lives and identities have moved online – and it’s driving us insane
  • It’s going to take more than an email to a public inbox to protect Australians from potential AI doom
  • Cyber-attack on Dyfed-Powys police ‘may have accessed staff information’
  • BBC Sport’s digital revamp poses wider questions about purpose of the corporation
  • ‘In our deepest hearts we are voyeurs’: the paedophile-hunting show that inspired Robert Pattinson’s new film
  • The comedians turning AI anxiety into punchlines: ‘It’s so good, it’ll completely alter our grasp on reality’
  • Meryl Streep’s casting as Aslan has angered the Christian right. Don’t they have more pressing issues?
  • TalkTalk races to sell consumer and broadband arms as administration looms
  • ‘She never accepted no’: Liam Neeson on dogged heroine behind Tuam mass baby grave film
  • We all know a lack of exercise is bad for our bodies. So what is relying on AI doing to our brains?
  • My dad was a monster! Sara Karloff on reviving Frankenstein, 95 years on
  • PM rejects ‘nonsense’ suggestion he delayed revealing OpenAI Medicare hack as Labor considers changing laws
  • Trump touts ‘great meeting’ with Xi at White House – as it happened
  • Susan Sarandon and Hannah Einbinder arrested at anti-Netanyahu protest in New York

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