App could turn America’s poor into lifelong readers
A scheme involving the White House, libraries and publishers will let children from cash-strapped families read free ebooks
Amazon at 20: what has the online giant ever done for retail?
The e-commerce site is 20 years old this week. So what influence has it really had on the retail and internet industries?
Amazon set to pay self-published authors as little as $0.006 per page read
Writers of shorter works could lose out on revenue as company’s Kindle Owners Lending Library and Kindle Unlimited no longer pay per copy downloaded
Fifty Shades of Grey author EL James now worth £37m
Books, film and merchandising tie-ins help to boost fortune
Margaret Atwood draws cartoon strip for ‘geek girl’ anthology
The novelist is contributing her own cartoons, detailing her experiences as a young woman, to Kickstarter-funded The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
British children’s stories startup Lost My Name tells a $9m funding tale
After 600k personalised picture-book sales, London firm secures investment from Silicon Valley firms Google Ventures and Greycroft
Fourth Fifty Shades book whips up unprecedented pre-ordering frenzy
The new book, Grey – this time written from Christian Grey’s perspective and published on 18 June – is set to dominate the publishing world once again
YouTube star PewDiePie strikes publishing deal for This Book Loves You
With 37m YouTube subscribers, Swedish gamer teams up with Penguin Random House for 250-page collection of ‘advice and inspirational quotes’
European commission to investigate Amazon’s ebook dominance
US tech sector’s problems with Brussels deepen as competition chief focuses on allegedly restrictive contract clauses
Kickstarting a books revolution: the literary crowdfunding boom
Authors, publishers and literary journals are all finding new ways of connecting directly to their readers – and their wallets – on online platforms such as Kickstarter
Why YA fiction is a dark mirror reflecting our own real lives
Did you know every two days, humans generate as much data as we did from the dawn of history up until 2003? AJ Steiger on how the internet means teenagers are more connected and empowered than ever before… but more vulnerable too – and how our books reflect this duality
New Bookindy app helps bookshops fight back against Amazon
Type in a book you’d like to read, and the app will compare the Amazon price with nearby independent bookshops – in the hope you’ll go and buy there
Ursula K Le Guin launches broadside on Amazon’s ‘sell it fast, sell it cheap’ policy
Fantasy author accuses the online giant of using its market dominance ‘to control what we write and what we read’
New James Bond novel Trigger Mortis resurrects Pussy Galore
Anthony Horowitz has drawn on an unseen Ian Fleming script for latest authorised 007 sequel
10 authors who excel on the internet
Writers are finding imaginative ways to negotiate the new era of electronic intimacy with readers. Here are some of the best