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Little Red Riding Hood by Nosy Crow – app review

Traditional fairytale gets a modern, beautifully-crafted update for iPhone and iPad. By Stuart Dredge

Ebook anxieties increase as publishing revolution rolls on

Amazon's bid for rights to sell secondhand ebooks adds another layer of complexity to a world where the certainties of print culture are dissolving

James Joyce’s Leopold gets his own book for Bloomsday

Billy Mills: After bringing Ulysses to Twitter in recent years, this year's celebration will see the novel's hero get a book to himself

Next-generation ebooks introduced at London Book Fair

Faber trails 'fully immersive' version of The Thirty-Nine Steps, and a bespoke ebook using digital format to rethink conventional narrative

Neil Gaiman urges publishers to ‘make mistakes’ in uncertain new era

Author's speech to London Book Fair calls for an experimental approach to a changing 'digital frontier'

Comic app: Apple not to blame for gay sex image ban

Comixology says it, not Apple, was responsible for blocking an issue of the Saga comic that contained images of gay sex

Scott Turow decries ‘slow death’ of the American author

Novelist and Authors Guild president fulminates against depletion of writers' incomes by publishers, libraries and copyright changes

E-lending could signal a new chapter for libraries

A government-commissioned report has allayed fears that digital lending could damage the book industry, writes Anna Baddeley

JP Martin’s elephant Uncle unforgotten in fan’s republishing plan

Crowdfunding appeal to relaunch much-loved children's tales illustrated by Quentin Blake

Random House accused of ‘predatory’ contracts for new ebook imprint

Writers' organisation charges Hydra, a digital-only science fiction imprint, with offering 'horrendously bad' terms to authors

What’s next for books in the digital age? Outlook unclear

Dan Gillmor: Innovations have blurred the boundaries of books and digital media, forcing authors and publishers to cope with an uncertain future

The Life of Pi sells 3,141,593 copies, and counting …

There's every reason why Yann Martel's irrational novel has been catapulted back into the bestseller charts

Independent booksellers sue Amazon and ‘big six’ publishers over ebooks

Three US booksellers claim contracts between Amazon and other publishers 'unreasonably restrain trade' in ebook market

Ray Bradbury’s work finally available digitally in the UK

A new deal with HarperCollins includes works currently out of print, but the science-fiction author was dismissive of ebooks

Why does Angry Birds have a vice president of book publishing?

Sanna Lukander explains why print books are more than a licensing sideline for Rovio. By Stuart Dredge

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  • Orwell: 2+2=5 review – documentary portrait doesn’t wholly add up
  • Charity Commission warns Alan Turing Institute of its legal duties after complaints
  • Law firms investigate possible Australian cases after US jury finds Meta and YouTube designed addictive products
  • 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

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