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Penguin joins push for short ebooks

Penguin is the latest publisher to embrace quick, digital-only reads, hoping they can reach a time and cash-starved market

Amazon.com extends publishing arm into children’s books

Bookseller steps up move into publishing with acquisition of 450 children's titles from Marshall Cavendish

ebook price fixing: Apple and five publishers face EU inquiry

Inquiry to find out if publishing houses and iPad makers have conspired to take on Amazon's dominance. By Juliette Garside

Are publishers putting the squeeze on bloggers?

Alison Flood: There are worrying signs from some quarters that online reviewers are being held to much stricter terms than traditional journalists receiving review copies

Fahrenheit 451 ebook published as Ray Bradbury gives in to digital era

Longtime opponent of new publishing media sanctions electronic editions in new deal

Amazon’s Kindle lending library is contract breach, say US authors

Authors Guild says online retailer is using 'brute economic power' to push books into scheme without proper permissions

Ideal Binary takes funding for its fairy tale book-app ambitions

Stuart Dredge: Irish startup raises seed round to ensure its business doesn't face a Grimm future on the app stores

Amazon signs ‘game-changing’ publishing deal with Deepak Chopra

The bestselling self-help guru has become the highest-profile author yet to sign book deal with Amazon

Has China found the future of publishing?

Self-publishing websites, where readers pay small premiums for popular authors' latest instalments, has been a spectacular success in China. Could it work here?

UK firm Mindshapes raises £3.1m to make its play in the kid-apps market

Stuart Dredge: Prepares for the launch of two new educational virtual worlds: Magic Town and Language City

Romantic fiction’s passion for ebooks

Romance readers have fallen for digital formats as a way to plough through books without being judged for their covers

Dale Carnegie’s self-help bible gets a new life for the digital age

How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age includes advice for bloggers but keeps rules of the 1936 original

Steve Jobs authorised biography tops bestseller list on pre-orders

Apple chief was 'curled up in pain' for last meeting with biographer Walter Isaacson, for book to be rushed into print

Harry Potter ebooks launch delayed

High demand forces Pottermore website to temporarily remove duelling game and postpone opening digital bookshop

Angry Birds is the elephant in the room at MIPJunior conference

Stuart Dredge: TV producers want to follow in developer Rovio Mobile's footsteps, but book publishers are more sceptical about apps

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  • Human rights groups cheer ‘watershed’ verdict in social media addiction trial
  • Oscars to leave Hollywood for downtown Los Angeles in 2029
  • New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK
  • UK politics: Trump says UK’s aircraft carriers are just ‘toys’ – as it happened
  • Brussels opens investigation into Snapchat amid concern over children’s safety
  • Hook, line and cinema: why boxing films are still a knockout
  • Alexander Kluge, author and key film-maker in the New German Cinema movement, dies aged 94
  • DJ Ahmet review – totally charming tale of teen travails in North Macedonia
  • Google warns quantum computers could hack encrypted systems by 2029
  • 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
  • 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

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