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

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