The ebook is dead. Long live the ebook
Reports that physical books are gaining ground at the expense of digital are just plain wrong, writes Anna Baddeley
No, we haven’t banned books on pigs – but sensitivity is key in global publishing
Jane Harley: At Oxford University Press we have to balance children’s cultural and learning needs, while retaining some healthy common sense
Sales of printed books fall by more than £150m in five years
New figures from Nielsen BookScan show continuing decline since 2009 as more and more readers migrate to ebooks
Facebook founder’s book club choice sends sales rocketing
Mark Zuckerberg’s selection of The End of Power by Moisés Naím sparks ‘seismic change’ in the book’s fortunes, with 18 months’ sales outstripped in days
Long live the ebook – it’s a champion of the printed word
Philip Jones: With the public promiscuously hopping from one format to another, reports of the e-reader’s death look distinctly premature
The novelist’s art of the tweet is brought to book
Artist and programmer Cory Arcangel’s book is made up of other people’s tweets about writing a book, writes James Bridle
Amazon ‘suppresses’ book with too many hyphens
Alison Flood: Graeme Reynolds’s novel High Moor 2: Moonstruck was withdrawn when the site decided 100 hyphenated words in 90,000 ‘impacted the readability’ of the book
Amazon goes head to head with Wattpad in battle for fanfic writers
Victoria James: The retail colossus is aiming to recruit fan fiction writers with their own ambitions to sell, but Wattpad is winning users who want to share
YouTube star takes online break as she admits novel was ‘not written alone’
Bear with me, video blogger Zoella asks fans, as she takes break from internet after admitting that runaway bestselling debut Girl Online was written jointly
Apple’s Eddy Cue on ebooks price-fixing war: ‘I’d do it again’
iBooks chief fighting US court ruling that the company ‘conspired’ to fix prices in its competition with Amazon’s Kindle is defiant before trial. Tim Cook ‘feels the same’
Touchscreen technology is good for kids? Don’t believe the hype
Eliane Glaser: The National Literacy Trust’s headline-grabbing claim is little more than highly coordinated lobbying based on flimsy evidence
Zoe Sugg’s Girl Online is fastest selling book of the year
YouTube star Zoella’s first book sells 78,000 copies in its first week, the highest first week’s sales of a new author ever
William Shatner explores new worlds of self-publishing and Kickstarter
Star Trek’s Captain Kirk turns to crowd-funding to finance new book on how to reinvent yourself after 50
Pelican’s new browser-based reading website takes flight with grace
With subtle interactive features and simple, bold design, Penguin’s resurrected non-fiction imprint places the focus on the reading experience, writes Anna Baddeley
Amazon and publisher Hachette end dispute over online book sales
Amazon, which earlier pulled several of Hachette’s books from its inventory, will resume selling all of the publisher’s catalogue