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Ebook price-fixing: judge approves settlement with publishers

US department of justice's $69m settlement with Simon & Schuster, Hachette and HarperCollins is approved by a federal judge, but Penguin, Macmillan and Apple still face trial next June

US ebook customers to receive compensation in price-fixing lawsuit

Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster agree to pay $69m settlement of claims they had colluded over ebook prices

Victoria Barnsley: ‘We can’t think of ourselves as book publishers any more’

HaperCollins's chief executive is about to launch an e-atlas – and, she says, that's not the only way the world is changing

Why self-publishing is no longer a vanity project

The rise of self-publishing marks a radical change for publishers, readers and writers, writes James Bridle

China Miéville: Writers should welcome a future where readers remix our books

Novelist says anti-piracy measures mooted for literature are 'disingenuous, hypocritical, ineffectual' and 'artistically philistine'

Barnes & Noble to launch Nook e-reader in UK

Publisher backed by Microsoft has Amazon's Kindle in its sights in first expansion outside US

Digital books may not be for everyone. But for blind people, they’re a true revolution

Peter White: Historically, only a tiny proportion of published books have made it into braille. But now technology means no book is off limits

Save the Sci-Fi campaign bids to convert rare novels to ebooks

Damien Walter: A specialist New York bookshop aims to rescue out-of-print books and provide them for free online

The Numinous Place hits $75k target on Kickstarter as Russell Crowe chips in

Mark Staufer's ebook/app project will blend video, audio, images and text on iPhone, iPad, Android and other devices. By Stuart Dredge

Fifty Shades of Grey becomes bestselling book ever in Britain

Sales of 5.3m in print and ebook drive EL James's 'spankbuster' past the Highway Code and Dan Brown

Kindle ebook sales have overtaken Amazon print sales, says book seller

For every 100 hardback and paperback books it sells on its UK site, 114 ebooks are downloaded in 'reading renaissance'

Why social media isn’t the magic bullet for self-epublished authors

In the third in a series of essays on digital media and publishing, Ewan Morrison, who will appear at the Edinburgh World Writers' Conference, claims that as the project to monetise social media falters the self-epublishing industry's defects will be laid bare

Why writing an app is different to writing a children’s picture book

Moira Butterfield and Nosy Crow keen to see authors and publishers collaborating more on book-apps. By Stuart Dredge

Ebook bargains: is there a heavier price to pay?

By allowing digital titles to be sold for 20p, publishers are eroding the value of their product, says Anna Baddeley

Tarzan returns: from Edwardian swinger to hunky ecowarrior

Edgar Rice Burroughs's lord of the jungle has been through many incarnations in print and on screen in 100 years. What is the secret of his survival?

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  • Wes Streeting tells BMA economic impact of Iran war means strikes won’t lead to better pay offer – UK politics live
  • Will Stephen Colbert’s Lord of the Rings film be Tom Bombadil’s time to shine?
  • Halle Bailey: ‘It’s a vulnerable place to be – a young woman cast as a Disney princess’
  • Starmer vows to tackle social media’s ‘addictive features’ to protect children
  • Brussels opens investigation into Snapchat amid concern over children’s safety
  • Creator of AI actor Tilly Norwood says she received death threats over project
  • The verdict against Meta and YouTube is a victory for children – and the US justice system
  • William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet review – Baz Luhrmann’s joyful tragedy is still extravagantly full of life
  • Rave Culture: A New Era review – high energy testimonial to the UK’s dance revolution
  • Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion
  • Dodging the ‘wrinkle wagon’: why a Brazilian film about ageing is inspiring older women
  • They Will Kill You review – satanic beat-’em-up offers gore, bad jokes and deja vu
  • I’m a young woman, and people keep telling me the internet has ruined my brain. Is this helpful?
  • 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

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