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Turn your passions into prose? Now there’s a movel idea

By encouraging the young to publish fan fiction, story-sharing startup Movellas is tackling English children's low literacy levels, writes Anna Baddeley

Colleen Hoover fans press publisher into print version of ebook

Romance author's fans succeed with social media drive to persuade Atria books into a paper version of free e-novella released late last year

Nosy Crow talks fairytales, reluctant readers and game-like apps for kids

'It's not half of us saying make it really gamey and half saying make it really booky', explains UK publisher. By Stuart Dredge

365 x 365: a digital experiment that’s a missed opportunity

James Robertson's daily short stories are a promising idea let down by poor digital design, says Anna Baddeley

Key to hit books discovered, study claims

Academic Yejin Choi says her algorithm can predict 'highly successful literature' with 84% accuracy

Digital publishing: the experts’ view of what’s next

Industry luminaries scry the spins ahead in the helter skelter revolution at the centre of their business

David Thomson on Tom Rosenthal, publisher of The Biographical Dictionary of Film

I first met Tom Rosenthal in the 1970s in Secker and Warburg's offices in Carlisle Street, Soho

Ebooks: self-publish and be annotated

Editorial: One might not be able to share an ebook, but it's possible to highlight and annotate them for all to see.

When will publishers wake up to the challenge of Amazon?

The books industry still underestimates the disruptive power of Jeff Bezos's awesome ambition

How publishing fiction online launched the career of this young writer

Beth Reeks: Indie publishing via online writing communities and ebooks can provide valuable feedback, and even set you on the path to mainstream success

Amazon reveals quarter of Kindle ebook sales in US were for indie publishers

Figures from world's biggest bookseller trumpeted as sign of how self-publishing and smaller labels are changing the industry

Penguin teams up with Readmill on booksharing app

Free app allows ebook readers to share highlights and update to social media websites

Young adult readers ‘prefer printed to ebooks’

Survey finds that 62% of 16 to 24-year-olds prefer traditional books over their digital equivalents

Ebooks need more attention from their publishers

Claire Armitstead: The industry is supposedly embracing a digital future, but too scant attention is too often paid to the basics of organising ebooks

HarperCollins UK boss tells publishers: take storytelling back from digital rivals

Charlie Redmayne warns that publishers must take their space back by going beyond ebooks to apps, games and video

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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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