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Publisher accuses Amazon.com of deliberately delaying sending its books

Hachette complains of unaccountably slow despatch amid reports of the web giant using such techniques to win better trade terms

Independent booksellers bolstered in fight against Amazon

My Independent Bookshop is a new social network and online retail site, with some profits going to independent stores

Tom Weldon: ‘Some say publishing is in trouble. They are completely wrong’

Ahead of the London Book Fair, the UK head of Penguin Random House insists his industry has coped with the digital revolution better than any other

Publishing: we can’t see the right track for all the digital platforms

Robert McCrum: More young people are reading books now than they were 10 years ago. And despite all the talk about electronic devices, content remains king

Julian Assange book to recount clash with Google chief Eric Schmidt

When Google Met Wikileaks will recount emblematic 'tug-of war over the internet's future'

Forget suing filesharers: in 2014, anti-piracy efforts follow the money

Infringing Website List is latest attempt by creative industries to squeeze ad revenues of piracy sites. By Stuart Dredge

Capitalism is making way for the age of free

Jeremy Rifkin: The internet of things has facilitated an economic shift from markets to collaborative commons, with costs close to zero

The big steal: rise of the plagiarist in the digital age

Thanks to the internet, it has never been easier to steal other people's work. There's also a high risk you'll be found out. So why do it? Rhodri Marsden goes in search of a little originality

Where did the story of ebooks begin?

Peter James's Host, published on two disks, was an early example – but exactly where the medium started life is surprisingly tricky to identify

Wikipedia 1,000-volume print edition planned

Currently soliciting crowdfunding, scheme hopes to transpose website's 2.6bn words onto paper for touring exhibition

Self-publishing: is it killing the mainstream?

Damien Walter: In genre fiction, going it alone is beginning to look a much more dependable route to success

Amazon Publishing’s advances move ahead of the market

The web giant's books imprint flexes its muscles after scoring an ebook No 1, but the little guy may yet win the day

Richard Bach returns with ‘part four’ of Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Multimillion-selling author also publishing new memoir of encounter with spirit guides after his 2012 plane crash

Charlie Chaplin’s only novel published for the first time

Footlights, the screen legend's unseen prequel in prose to the film Limelight, reflects his sadness at declining stardom

Can Twitter co-founder take an ‘evolutionary leap’ into storytelling?

Collaborative publishing website Medium, which aims to reinvent the blog, secures first external investment. By Ben Cardew

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  • Zootopia 2 bucks trend for Hollywood releases in China as it breaks records for foreign animation
  • Fackham Hall review – Downton Abbey spoof is fast, funny and throwaway
  • ‘This merger must be blocked’: Netflix-Warner Bros deal faces fierce backlash
  • Cloudflare apologises after latest outage takes down LinkedIn and Zoom
  • AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media
  • ‘Urgent clarity’ sought over racial bias in UK police facial recognition technology
  • Musicians must embrace ‘unstoppable force’ of AI, Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart urges
  • New York Times sues AI startup for ‘illegal’ copying of millions of articles
  • The Guardian view on reboots of A Christmas Carol and Paddington: refugee tales for today
  • Scarlett Johansson joining the Batverse is good news for the franchise – but who will she play?
  • The end of big-screen cinema? What Netflix hopes to achieve by buying Warner Bros
  • Trump administration moves to deny visas to factcheckers and content moderators
  • Netflix agrees to buy Warner Bros Discovery studio and streaming business in $83bn deal
  • I spent hours listening to Sabrina Carpenter this year. So why do I have a Spotify ‘listening age’ of 86?
  • Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair – what does the new Tarantino cut offer?
  • ‘He’s the new Daniel Day-Lewis’: Margot Robbie defends Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights
  • ‘Not approved for human use’: the online frenzy for injectable peptides sweeping Australia
  • Russell Crowe’s 20 best roles – sorted!
  • ‘I’ve had all the luck you can get’: Michael Caine retires for the fourth time
  • Belle Gibson drama Apple Cider Vinegar leads 2026 Aacta award nominations
  • ‘My God, what a story it would make’: film-maker Kevin Brownlow on It Happened Here and Winstanley
  • Elon Musk’s X fined €120m by EU in first clash under new digital laws
  • Home Office admits facial recognition tech issue with black and Asian subjects
  • Flights resume at Edinburgh airport after air traffic control issue – as it happened
  • Tesla launches cheaper version of Model 3 in Europe amid Musk sales backlash
  • Labour wants to ramp up facial recognition. What if our data ends up in the wrong hands?
  • The Alto Knights to Under the Stars: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • ‘The goal was to scare a kid’: the wild world of films-within-films
  • Explaining UK debt with biscuits: Labour MPs get the hang of viral content
  • ‘It was about degrading someone completely’: the story of Mr DeepFakes – the world’s most notorious AI porn site

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