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