The future of reading: iPad, Kindle … and hardback

Peter Preston: It's not a surprise that ebooks are booming, nor that mass-market paperbacks are suffering. What's fascinating is how well hardback books are still selling, years after their death knell seemed to have been sounded

Kindle Fire given cautious welcome by publishers

While device can boost ebook sales, latest devices intensify concerns over Amazon's increasing dominance of marketplace. By Benedicte Page

New Bloomsbury digital imprint revives hundreds of neglected classics

Work by Edith Sitwell, Monica Dickens and VS Pritchett among 230 previously out-of-print titles launching publisher's new ebook list

Amazon founder heads digital advance on Guardian books power list

Jeff Bezos tops a list of the 100 most powerful people in publishing which charts the transformation of the books industry by digital technology

Fool for proofs: the advance reading copy trade

David Barnett: How is it that an uncorrected proof of a book can be valued at 50 times a finished version?

ustwo talks Papercut, iPad fiction and interactive storytelling

'We wanted to explore the possibilities of digital publishing…'

Nosy Crow talks fairy tales, book-apps and making your own machine

Stuart Dredge: As its second app Cinderella is released, UK publisher explains how it's straddling the book and app worlds

Felix Dennis talks iPad poetry, Apple approvals and tablets for the elderly

Stuart Dredge: Tales From The Woods marks poetic debut on the App Store, but his magazine company is experimenting elsewhere

Dorling Kindersley talks iPad, Android and its ‘Darwinian’ apps strategy

Stuart Dredge: Justin Moodie on why book publishers are experimenting and innovating on the app stores

The death of books has been greatly exaggerated

Much of the doomsayers' evidence is anecdotal, and it's possible to read a much happier story, says novelist Lloyd Shepherd

Are books dead, and can authors survive?

At the Edinburgh international book festival this weekend, Ewan Morrison set out his bleak vision of a publishing industry in terminal decline. Here's a shortened version of his argument

It’s little surprise Amazon and authors are cutting out the middleman

Ian Vince: After giving away their margins, publishers have let marketing and royalties for most of their writers slide

Amazon’s publishing arm signs up Timothy Ferriss

Self-help guru's latest book will be published by the online giant, as mainstream publishers admit fearing Amazon's 'big pockets'

Amazon strikes first ‘major’ publishing deal

The online retailer's aggressive move into publishing has continued with its signing of bestselling self-help author Timothy Ferriss

Hardback sales plummeting in age of the ebook

Sales of adult hardback fiction have fallen by over 10% this year alone, with ebooks now accounting for 13.6% of US market