Piracy is yesterday’s worry for today’s ‘artisan authors’
File sharing and self-publishing are becoming the norm for a generation of writers looking beyond a moribund publishing eco-system
Pearson reports slight profit downgrade
Parent company of FT Group says weak market conditions means that it expects operating profits of £935m for 2012. By Mark Sweney
Amazon’s AutoRip: a great service – with strings attached
Dan Gillmor: If you bought a music CD from Amazon in recent years, AutoRip now lets you download the digital version. But there's a catch
Joe Simpson dumps ‘bullying’ publisher over ebook royalties
Mountaineer sets up his own digital publisher after refusing to accept 25% offer from Random House
Inside Burgundy iPad ebook brings vintage tastes to Apple’s iBookstore
'We will break even on this if we can sell about 2,000," says publisher Christopher Foulkes. By Stuart Dredge
Printed book sales’ decline slowed in 2012
Physical book sales fell £74m last year, but contraction of the market slowed despite the recession and rise of ebooks
Our e-publishing predictions for 2013
If you want to see the shape of books to come, cast your eyes stateside, says Anna Baddeley
Print book sales rise hailed as a sign of a fightback in a digital world
Celebrity titles help sales of physical books break through £75m mark, the strongest weekly performance since Christmas 2009
European commission and Apple reach settlement over ebook price fixing
Apple and four major publishers vow to restore fair competition to European ebook market, handing pricing power to retailers
Best ebooks for Christmas
Anna Baddeley picks December's digital highlights
Digital-only publishing: an everyday tale of print, pride and prejudice
The refusal to take digital-only publishing seriously imposes limits on reader and author alike, writes James Bridle
Book publishers have long been playing into Amazon’s hands
The proposed merger of Penguin and Random House might be too late for a publishing industry seemingly set on self-destruction, writes John Naughton
Bertelsmann’s pickup of Penguin shows the poor state of British publishing
Ian Jack: With Penguin now largely German-owned, English-language publishing is now more than ever a European concern
Penguin merger minuses could be pluses for indies
The book trade's response to the creation of Penguin Random House has been largely despairing – but there is new hope for independents
Pirated novelist gets on board with rogue translator
Online references to his book lead Peter Mountford to baffled Russian reader – at work on illegal ebook version