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Stephen King’s Joyland pirated

Alison Flood: As ebooks of King's latest novel circulate online, German researchers pioneer controversial new DRM technology

Why Tao Lin’s Taipei can breathe new life into literature

Dan Holloway: Tao Lin's latest novel could bring energy and excitement of Alt Lit into the mainstream literary conversation

Philip Pullman: ‘Authors must be paid fairly for ebook library loans’

The writer of His Dark Materials leads a new campaign to address 'underpayment' of writers for digital loans

Audrey Niffenegger finally gives go-ahead to Time Traveler’s Wife ebook

Alison Flood: After years holding out, the author has consented to an electronic version of her bestselling novel for a new e-book website – and announced an exclusive 30-page sequel

Apple in US court over accusations of fixing prices of ebooks

Justice Department arguing tech firm conspired with publishers to set prices of ebooks – and break Amazon's grip on market

Apple in court over ebook price-fixing accusations

Company has refused to settle over claims that it conspired with publishers to raise the price of products in the US

Children’s publisher turns back on Amazon

Refusing further business, Barefoot Books says retail giant has undermined its commitment to 'grassroots values'

Coverflip: author Maureen Johnson turns tables on gendered book covers

Novelist challenges readers to flip genders of famous book covers and expose publishers' sexist attitudes to women's fiction

The digital truths traditional publishers don’t want to hear

The choices offered by digital publishing can only be good news for writers, says Barry Eisler. So why are traditional publishers so angry?

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

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  • Love me, love my bruised ego: what the narcissist-artist film tells us about the fear of ageing
  • Trump’s media company, which also owns Truth Social, reports $238m loss
  • Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta drops open-source model
  • The Guardian view on Meta’s smart glasses: regulators must get on the front foot
  • Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to ‘pause AI development’ in interest of humanity
  • Barack Obama launches podcast about books that ‘shaped his worldview’
  • John Cameron Mitchell: ‘It’s punk to turn off your phone – you’re walking away from the herd’
  • Sam Neill on making Hunt for the Wilderpeople: ‘We were attacked by a puppet pig!’
  • This Is Ballroom review – pulsating documentary tells story of Brazilian ballroom
  • How to feel optimistic in the face of crisis? Ask the kids fighting slug-like aliens
  • What happens when medical students rely on AI – and never develop their own judgment?
  • Lesbians, latex and $2,000 condoms: why are this summer’s movies so obsessed with sex?
  • RL Stine’s Pumpkinhead review – horror from Goosebumps writer has kid confined inside large fruit
  • Messy is chic again. But is the world ready for my kind of crumpled grubbiness?
  • Ancestral Visions of the Future review – visceral cine-memoir is a haunting return to Lesotho
  • Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’
  • It’s not just the Odyssey effect: poetry is booming because it’s the only language for these times of violence and chaos
  • Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 review: your passport to a folding phone future
  • Mermaid Beach review – Wales gets its mermaidcore moment in teen-empowerment tale
  • UK manufacturers face rising hacking risk as survey shows 30% were hit last year
  • Movie paradise? How Malta became a magnet for big film shoots
  • Zuckerberg faces questions over why superyacht reportedly declined to help stranded boat
  • OnlyFans for Therapy review – a brave and unsettling emotional exposure
  • Inside a meme factory: meet one of thousands of Indonesians trading political outrage clicks for Facebook cash
  • I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming review – brilliant bulletin from Ukrainian frontline dives deep into culture war
  • Most X accounts posting about Belfast and Southampton unrest were based outside UK
  • ‘I’ve definitely lost followers’: influencers face backlash over Meta ‘pervert glasses’ content
  • AI push is putting banks at mercy of tech firms, warns Moody’s
  • ‘Watch The Odyssey for free online’: scam targets film fans with fake streaming sites
  • The hill I will die on: Remove those earphones – you’re blocking out the music of humanity

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