Apple: iBooks 2 will ‘reinvent textbooks’

Although price is likely to be a barrier, the software will let students watch videos and take notes inside the virtual books

Ian Rankin wants tax incentives to help new authors

Inspector Rebus creator fears for new writing talent as publishers cut advances and internet transforms industry

Kindle the fire to self-publishing

With 1.3m e-readers bought this Christmas, the flame was lit for budding authors to go it alone. Rebecca Ratcliffe meets Kerry Wilkinson who sold his 100,000th copy

Ebooks and apps innovation exciting publishers despite price concerns

Stuart Dredge: Companies hope quality will be key weapon against wave of 99p competition on ebook and app stores

The way ahead for publishing

Stephen Page: The media and the market for books are in flux in the age of ebooks and Amazon, but publishers still have a vital role

Amanda Hocking, the writer who made millions by self-publishing online

A couple of years ago, Amanda Hocking needed to raise a few hundred dollars so, in desperation, made her unpublished novel available on the Kindle. She has since sold over 1.5m books and, in the process, changed publishing forever

Moonbot Studios talks Numberlys, apps and interactive storytelling

Stuart Dredge: 'This feels like the invention of radio, television or the movie cinema...'

The great ebook price swindle

Dan Gillmor: Publishers are facing an uncertain time in the digital world – but increasing the prices of their ebooks is a retrograde step

Lucia Etxebarria: truly an extraordinary author

Kathryn Hughes: I understand Lucia Etxebarria's anger at illegal dowloading. But for most writers books are a labour of love, not money

Touch Press talks digital publishing, Kindle Fire and inspirational book-apps

'We have broken into the Garden of Eden, and it's upon us to take advantage of that opportunity,' says Max Whitby

Spanish novelist Lucía Etxebarria quits writing in piracy protest

Author says more copies of her book have been downloaded illegally than sold, and claims politicians too scared to act

21st-century publishing builds on a healthy radical tradition

Far from killing off the book, the digital age is proving a boon to innovative publishers and authors, many of whom are using new technology to breathe life back into old ideas, writes William Skidelsky