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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

Short ebooks: don’t let one bad experience ruin a literary phenomenon

Penelope Lively's recent short ebook for Penguin drew criticism for its brevity – but readers should not be put off the genre as a whole, writes Anna Baddeley

Egmont’s Jelly Pie brings humour to kids with YouTube and mobile games

New community may come from a publisher, but it's starting with digital media rather than books. By Stuart Dredge

Ylvis’s YouTube hit The Fox becomes children’s book

Much-watched song by Norwegian musical comedy duo due out in US as illustrated story

Amazon employee rebukes wife over Jeff Bezos biography

Shel Kaphan joins author Brad Stone in answering MacKenzie Bezos' one-star review of 'definitive biography' of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. By Samuel Gibbs

MacKenzie Bezos trashes latest book on Amazon and Jeff Bezos. Irony abounds

Emma Brockes: The business of book reviewing has often been called incestuous, but the circularity here is almost aesthetic

John Pye on self-publishing: ‘I am in control’

The hit crime writer explains why he gave up on print publishers and professional editors and struck out on his own

Randi Zuckerberg warns of social media’s risks in two new books

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's sister suggests adults and children should limit time online

Jeff Bezos’ wife slams ‘misleading’ biography in Amazon review

'Everywhere I can fact check from personal knowledge, I find way too many inaccuracies,' writes MacKenzie Bezos. By Stuart Dredge

Ebooks and discounts drive 98 publishers out of business

Number of closures is 42% up on last year, as digital books and huge pressure on margins push companies over the brink

Amazon launches literary journal

Day One, to be published weekly for Kindle, will include a short story and a poem

Thousands volunteer for Leo Tolstoy digitisation

Russian project All of Tolstoy in One Click will make the author's complete works available on tablets and smartphones

Don’t worry, Your Majesty, we are reading more than ever before

Observer editorial: Despite the Queen's reported fears for the Kindle generation, digital platforms have made this a golden age for the written word

Writing on the Wall: Social Media – The First 2000 Years by Tom Standage – review

Why mass media were an aberration in human history. By David Shariatmadari

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  • Former Google executive Matt Brittin selected to be next BBC director general
  • Bernie Sanders and AOC introduce bill to pause building of new datacenters
  • Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds
  • Jamie Lee Curtis to lead Murder, She Wrote reboot movie
  • Pretty Lethal review – Amazon’s ballerina action thriller puts on a decent enough show
  • Valerie Perrine obituary
  • UK iPhone users face over-18 age check to use services after update
  • Hundreds of UK teenagers to trial six-week social media curbs for major study
  • What are the rules on cryptocurrency donations to UK political parties?
  • Matt Brittin: why the BBC’s new Doctor Who-loving boss may not have much time for sleep
  • Backlash mounts over twist in Robert Pattinson Zendaya romcom The Drama
  • Billy Idol Should Be Dead review – nostalgic docu-tribute to British postpunk’s rebel
  • Underland review – poetic exploration of life deep beneath the Earth’s surface
  • 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
  • ‘Was that an earthquake?’ Italy’s great psychogeographer tackles the Vesuvius-haunted Naples tourists seldom see
  • 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

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