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
Crowdsourced editing: e-publishing’s next frontier
Innovative startup Advance Editions is turning book editing into a conversation, writes Anna Baddeley
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
Comic David Mitchell rails at Amazon’s ‘cynical … life-crushing’ business style
Online giant operates a ‘rapacious near monopoly’, the Observer columnist and Peep Show star tells Booksellers conference, reports Alison Flood
Bestselling authors write to Amazon’s board over ‘ugly’ Hachette sales dispute
Group representing Donna Tartt, Stephen King and others says Amazon tactics have driven sales down by at least 50%
Fan fiction: how to write it
Start with One Direction and see where they take you – your daydreams could snare you a book deal
Internet piracy: media union endorses web-filtering proposal
Union says forcing ISPs to block copyright-infringing websites would reduce piracy and help protect artists
Lost chapter of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory published
Chapter with more characters and Quentin Blake illustration deemed 'too wild' for British children appears for first time
Racist abuse will not stop me seeking more diversity in children’s literature
Malorie Blackman: Our culture should reflect the reality of our world. Until we have a wider variety of protagonists, many children will feel invisible