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

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