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
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