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Britons’ bookshelves are still full of literature says Ofcom report

Alison Flood: Literacy organisations welcome signs that people of all ages are still reading books in physical and ebook formats

Bestselling authors take out full-page New York Times ad against Amazon

Alison Flood: Stephen King and Donna Tartt among those petitioning Amazon to 'stop harming the livelihood of the authors'

How Minecraft has bewitched 40 million of us

The worldwide domination of Markus Persson's building-blocks game is a triumph for the power of human imagination, writes John Naughton

Business Adventures – why Bill Gates’s favourite book is back at the top of the bestseller lists

It is 43 years old and was out of print for ages, but the Microsoft mogul's approval has caused a brand new surge in sales

Hachette ebook sales fall in wake of dispute with Amazon over pricing

Hachette finance chief plays down effect of Amazon tactics as parent Lagardère reports 1% overall dip in sales

Writers unite in campaign against ‘thuggish’ Amazon

Nearly 900 authors across world back criticism of online retailer's business tactics in ebooks dispute with US publisher Hachette

Kindle Unlimited: it’s the end of losing yourself in a good book

Amazon's leaked 'Netflix for books' plan will alarm publishers – and doom old-fashioned anonymous reading, writes John Naughton

Apple agrees to pay $450m settlement in ebook price fixing case

iPad manufacturer to pay damages contingent upon appeals court ruling over whether it conspired with publishers to fix prices

Amazon and Hachette take ebooks battle into public domain

News: The stand-off between the internet retail giant and the publishing corporation has drawn both sides into open contention over commercial terms

Nadine Dorries’ novel The Four Streets reaches No 1 in the charts

News: Ebook sales for the Conservative MP's debut novel topped 100,000 in May, ahead of John Green and Jo Nesbo

Amazon’s battle with Hachette is a fight for readers, writers and retailers

Hugh Howey: As things stand, Hachette is making ebook discounts impossible, and almost everybody else stands to lose

Malorie Blackman: ‘I love gadgets, but e-reading has to be carefully handled’

Children’s Laureate enthusiastic about children reading digitally but thinks publishers should ‘proceed with caution’. By Stuart Dredge

Will digital eat the children’s media world? ‘It’s totally going to happen!’

But that doesn't necessarily mean printed books and linear television will die out by 2020, suggest experts. By Stuart Dredge

New Amazon terms amount to ‘assisted suicide’ for book industry, experts claim

Report says publishers under heavy pressure to make damaging concessions including giving online retailer rights to print on demand

#Hashtag book titles trend is a gimmick that works – for now

From #Girlboss to #Scandal and beyond, publishers are discovering a new marketing hook for hard-copy as well as online reading

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  • Hundreds of UK teenagers to trial six-week social media curbs for major study
  • Redoubt review – Denis Lavant is unforgettable as an oddball building a public shelter for obscure disaster
  • Stephen Colbert to write new Lord of the Rings film after end of the Late Show
  • ‘Denial machine’: climate misinformation is fuelling conflict in Australian communities, inquiry finds
  • Influencers are promoting these three health tests – but they risk doing more harm than good
  • Meta ordered to pay $375m after being found liable in child exploitation case
  • OpenAI shutters AI video generator Sora in abrupt announcement
  • Anthropic and Pentagon face off in court over ban on company’s AI model
  • Tom Georgeson obituary
  • Baltimore sues Elon Musk’s AI company over Grok’s fake nude images
  • Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice review – double the Vince Vaughn in middling time travel comedy
  • Live-action movie version of children’s TV series Mr Benn in the works
  • Protect men and boys from manosphere influencers, Labour MPs tell Ofcom
  • MPs accuse social media firms of spreading Iran misinformation
  • Why is the US so expensive? Everything comes in a ‘premium’ version, from doctors’ appointments to movies
  • Argos faces backlash over ‘influencer kit’ for toddlers
  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at 60: Elizabeth Taylor still crackles with feral energy
  • Divide between Silicon Valley and ordinary people grows ever larger
  • Transforming the Beautiful Game: The Clyde Best Story review – fitting tribute to a barnstorming trailblazer
  • ‘We are a very resilient people’: in the face of Trump’s threats, Cuban cinema comes out fighting
  • As the US midterms approach, AI is going to emerge as a key issue concerning voters
  • Abel leaves LA: self-deportation from Trump’s America – documentary
  • Surrender to It review – insufferable bunch of actors reconnect for hiking weekend of pain and comedy
  • Revolut warns it risks backlash over support for energy-intensive AI and crypto
  • The Peaky Blinders film is pandering to these populist times – I should know, the Nazi in it is my father
  • No Ordinary Heist review – Eddie Marsan stars in Belfast true-crime thriller about massive bank robbery
  • Behind the rise of Clavicular and ‘looksmaxxing’ there are insecure young men who feel they don’t measure up
  • Empire of Lies review – far-right conspiracist and YouTuber lock horns in Gloucestershire field
  • Amount of AI-generated child sexual abuse material found online surged in 2025
  • Victorian business fined for telling influencers to lie about paid Instagram posts in first of its kind penalty

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