Beyond The Story talks Anne Frank, apps and the evolution of publishing

'People are spending all their time on a single device, and if they're reading on it, they'll demand more from reading'. By Stuart Dredge

Attention ‘artisan authors’: digital self-publishing is harder than it looks

Alasdair Stuart: Showcasing your work on blogs, podcasts or social media is fine, just don't see it as a shortcut to finding an audience

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