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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?

Book ‘pirate’ goes underground after being named by Terry Goodkind

Alison Flood: The actions of the fantasy author, who published the photo and details of The First Confessor pirate, have divided digital opinion

Kickstarter becomes fourth biggest publisher of graphic novels

Research shows crowdfunding site made $2.2m (£1.41m) over three months, behind Marvel, DC and Image

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