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’
Touchscreen technology is good for kids? Don’t believe the hype
Eliane Glaser: The National Literacy Trust’s headline-grabbing claim is little more than highly coordinated lobbying based on flimsy evidence
Zoe Sugg’s Girl Online is fastest selling book of the year
YouTube star Zoella’s first book sells 78,000 copies in its first week, the highest first week’s sales of a new author ever
William Shatner explores new worlds of self-publishing and Kickstarter
Star Trek’s Captain Kirk turns to crowd-funding to finance new book on how to reinvent yourself after 50
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