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
Everything I Never Told You tops Amazon’s 100 best books of 2014
Celeste Ng’s debut novel beats Stephen King, Richard Flanagan, Martin Amis and Hilary Mantel to lead American online retailer’s list of the year’s top books
Paul Kingsnorth’s The Wake: a novel approach to Old English
Prize-winning fiction set in 11th century and using innovative language gains critical success after rejection by mainstream publishers
I’m hooked on ebook highlighting – what we underline is so revealing
Ebook readers reveal the most highlighted passages in Harry Potter, the Bible, Lord of the Rings and many more, writes Alison Flood
Google and Facebook: voracious giants with the power to create the future
The internet powerhouses are using their billions to challenge in sectors far removed from their original business models
Top literary agent Andrew Wylie calls Amazon ‘Isis-like distribution channel’
Wylie calls for fellow publishers to stand firm and ‘not to blink’ during negotiations over ebook royalties with digital retailer
Game of Thrones spawns an app to help fans learn to speak Dothraki
Publisher promises it ‘will arm you with enough vocabulary and grammar to have a complete conversation in Dothraki’. By Stuart Dredge
Stephen Fry: ‘It’s staggering how people expect online services to be utterly free’
The entertainer on the crossover between books and tech, Twitter’s evolution and ‘weird, repulsive trolling’. By Stuart Dredge
Minecraft movie will be ‘large-budget’ but unlikely to arrive before 2017
Mojang COO Vu Bui talks Hollywood plans, YouTube and Minecraft books ahead of Microsoft acquisition. By Stuart Dredge
YouTube, Minecraft and David Walliams: children’s books in 2014
Kids are using more devices now, but they’re still reading books. In fact, the market is buoyant. By Stuart Dredge
Stephen Fry seeking digital makers for global YourFry storytelling project
Publisher working with WeTransfer to make text, audio and images available for creators alongside new autobiography. By Stuart Dredge
Jeff Bezos’ writer treatment: lavish money on some and cut pensions for others
The Amazon has hosted premier writers at Campfire retreats but cut pensions for journalists, changing the hierarchy of writers
Children’s apps: ‘Technology interferes with the story in most apps’
Author and critic Nicolette Jones says she’s never seen a picture-book app doing something a book can’t do better. By Stuart Dredge
Maldives will censor all books to protect Islamic codes
In a move condemned by free speech advocates, the islands’ government moves to curb literature and poetry’s ‘adverse effects on society’, reports Alison Flood