Werner Herzog reads potty-mouthed bedtime audiobook

Fitzcarraldo director gives spoken-word treatment to controversial children's book pastiche

Somethin’ Else talks apps, brands and ‘massively multiplayer books’

The firm behind Papa Sangre and The Nightjar sees a bright future for brands who look beyond the generic

Publisher joins forces with Matthew Freud's literary agency to digitally republish out-of-print classics

Paul Carr: Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give him the chance to drink like a fish, and things may turn out differently

'The wildness of the avant-garde is never pure. But that's no reason to reject the category entirely'

Stuart Dredge: Publisher keen to get app developers working closely with its authors

Cory Doctorow: HarperCollins' attempt to ensure ebooks can only be circulated 26 times by libraries is indefensible

Stephen Leather has established a parallel ebook career that has rocketed him to the top of the Kindle bestseller lists

Dramas based on real lives are a mainstay of film and books. But are they destroying the art of storytelling, asks William Skidelsky

Memoir entitled A Spectacle of Dust submitted before the actor's death earlier this month

Observer writers and experts chart the concepts, trends and buzz words that defined the past 12 months and are likely to shape the next one

If the success of Amazon's Kindle has made print publishers relax, they're in for a nasty surprise, says John Naughton

Cory Doctorow: Self-publishing a book provides a wealth of opportunity, but decisions are harder when there are no constraints

Robert McCrum: Penguin may be unimpressed but Bond's owners have made a shrewd move, licensing ebook rights to Ian Fleming Publications