Phone fiction spells the end of the professional novelist

Wattpad’s user-generated commercial fiction more than matches traditional publishing and is delivered direct to the smartphone – who needs to pay writers?

Amazon, the greedy giant with small publishers in its grip

To sell online, indie publishers must use Amazon. But its methods leave them out of pocket – or out of sight, paying hidden charges, says Linen Press founder Lynn Michell

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Alison Flood: Graeme Reynolds’s novel High Moor 2: Moonstruck was withdrawn when the site decided 100 hyphenated words in 90,000 ‘impacted the readability’ of the book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’