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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

Penguin merger with Random House speaks volumes about book industry

Concerns over Amazon's power underlie plan to create £2.6bn super-publisher – yet industry is relatively healthy

Penguin and Random House may merge, but the power lies elsewhere

Philip Jones: Talks over a Penguin-Random House consolidation are driven by the big tech giants – and more publishers are likely to follow

Random House-Penguin: publishers moot deal for digital clout

If you need Amazon, Apple or Google to reach readers, size matters

Amazon to be stripped of tax advantage on sale of ebooks

European commission tells Luxembourg to end VAT loophole, a decision that could close the gap with British ebook prices

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  • Nimrods review – Green Day’s early years inspire teenage kicks in amiable punk road movie
  • Gangs using Airbnb-type rentals as drug stash houses, top Belgian official says
  • The Pout-Pout Fish review – Nick Offerman is best thing in kids cartoon adventure on the high seas
  • 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

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