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
Traditional books on paper open a new chapter of success
As the expansion of ebook sales slow down, enthusiasm for both paperbacks and hardcovers remains strong
Little Black Classics carry Penguin to new heights
The success of Penguin’s highly portable commute-sized gobbets says much about what modern readers want
DC Comics pull cover of Batgirl menaced by Joker after online protests
Fans of female superhero distressed by misogynist tone of special edition artwork, while others say protest row has led to censorship
Love letter to YA book bloggers
Andy Robb founded the UKYA Blogger Awards to salute all the teen and YA book bloggers who work so hard, for nothing but free books and the odd signature, to tell the world about the books they love, here’s why
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