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

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

Amazon and Hachette feud could rewrite the book on publishing

The Ebook price row has the potential to create irreversible changes to the literary world and its business models

How Amazon’s bid to bury Hachette has backfired

Amazon's suggestion that the ebook phenomenon is comparable to the paperback revolution has sparked scorn, satire and indigation, writes James Bridle

Julian Gough launches ‘Litcoin’ Kickstarter to ‘remodel the economics of reading’

News: Writer crowdfunds time spent working on new novel with promise to send postcards – some written in his own blood – to readers who buy in

The Guardian view on Amazon v Hachette: reading and writing

Editorial: Can a one-size-fits-all, low-price, consumer-dominated sales model support a diverse, innovative, challenging literary output?

Amazon’s Russell Grandinetti: Kindle champ takes on the books trade

Profile: Why are some of the world's most widely read authors now at daggers drawn with Amazon? The answer lies in Jeff Bezos's chief lieutenant, now the most powerful man in publishing