Book publishers getting to grips with the potential of apps
Stuart Dredge: London roundtable reveals optimism about the creative potential, but an awareness of tight margins too
Publishers and the internet: a changing role?
Connecting with the audience is still publishing's aim, but does the internet make it distribute first and publish later, asks Cory Doctorow
Ebooks: the latest frontier for spam
Mike Essex: The ease with which you can license content and repackage it to sell as an ebook has created a growing problem for Amazon and other resellers – spam ebooks. Distributors are worried, too
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
Bloomsbury brings Edith Sitwell to the ebook
Publisher joins forces with Matthew Freud's literary agency to digitally republish out-of-print classics
Not Safe For Work Revisited: How the Guardian’s tech editor nearly killed me
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
LA Noire video game inspires short story collection
Joyce Carol Oates among writers contributing to anthology inspired by much-hyped detective game
Paris, home of the avant-garde
'The wildness of the avant-garde is never pure. But that's no reason to reject the category entirely'
HarperCollins talks apps, e-book discovery and a ‘Spotify for books’
Stuart Dredge: Publisher keen to get app developers working closely with its authors
Ebooks: durability is a feature, not a bug
Cory Doctorow: HarperCollins' attempt to ensure ebooks can only be circulated 26 times by libraries is indefensible
Kindle gives thriller writer a plot for success – at 71p a shot
Stephen Leather has established a parallel ebook career that has rocketed him to the top of the Kindle bestseller lists
It’s time to stop this obsession with works of art based on real events
Dramas based on real lives are a mainstay of film and books. But are they destroying the art of storytelling, asks William Skidelsky
Pete Postlethwaite autobiography due this summer
Memoir entitled A Spectacle of Dust submitted before the actor's death earlier this month
20 things we learned in 2010
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