Big e-reader is watching you
Alison Flood: Your e-reader knows how long it took you to finish The Hunger Games and where you stopped reading Wolf Hall. Publishers are thrilled with the new data – but what does it mean for the rest of us?
Brian Cox iPad book-app sold 20k copies in its first three days
HarperCollins reveals stats and says £4.99 price point paid off for Wonders of the Universe app. By Stuart Dredge.
Bardowl iPhone app wants to be ‘Spotify for audiobooks’
British startup hoping to take on Audible with streaming subscription service. By Stuart Dredge
Publishers hit back vigorously against accusations of ebook price-fixing
Penguin and Macmillan reject US department of justice claim that they colluded with Apple to thwart price competition
Publishers should be proud of their legacy
Stephen Page: The word 'legacy' is becoming a term of abuse in the publishing revolution, but a long history of bringing great writing to committed readers is nothing to be ashamed of
Text mining: what do publishers have against this hi-tech research tool?
Researchers push for end to publishers' default ban on computer scanning of tens of thousands of papers to find links between genes and diseases
Nick Harkaway: ‘The book industry has got to get online publishing right’
The sci-fi novelist tells William Skidelsky whu he has turned non-fiction author to investigate technology and the future of reading
Rivals launch a printing revolution that could be as significant as Gutenberg
Landa and Xeikon to unveil new inkjet and toner technology at drupa exhibition in Düsseldorf. By Mark Piesing
Huge rise in ebook sales offsets decline in printed titles
Alison Flood: Despite an increase in digital sales of 366% last year, printed books remain the choice for the majority of readers, figures show
The digital world has invigorated publishing, not doomed it
Authors need our resources, our expertise and our marketing experience now more than ever
Amazon aren’t destroying publishing, they’re reshaping it
Nick Harkaway: Google, Apple and Amazon are vying to become literature's new gatekeepers. But good publishing is about more than market share
Tor rips up the rulebook on digital rights management
Authors, agents and retailers welcome science fiction publisher's announcement that its entire ebook list is to become DRM-free
Why trailblazing Amazon should take on the publishing establishment
Scaremongers who warn of a potential Amazon monopoly conveniently forget that one already exists in shape of legacy publishers, says novelist Barry Eisler
Ebooks: should their form determine their value?
Despite what retailers think, the true value of a book lies not in its physical form but in the time spent writing it, writes James Bridle
London Book Fair: publishing world struggles to adapt to new lines
The partying goes on at Earl's Court, but new formats and self-publishing are changing the industry