Facebook buys iOS book-app publisher Push Pop Press
Stuart Dredge: The developer of Al Gore's Our Choice snapped up, but says social network isn't moving into digital publishing
Book publishers getting to grips with the potential of apps
Stuart Dredge: London roundtable reveals optimism about the creative potential, but an awareness of tight margins too
The book is not dead, it’s just shape-shifting
Robert McCrum: Writers, booksellers and publishers are already exploiting the wizardry in the latest IT revolution
Publishers and the internet: a changing role?
Connecting with the audience is still publishing's aim, but does the internet make it distribute first and publish later, asks Cory Doctorow
Self-publishing stars
David Moody and Barry Eisler, two of the most successful authors to have published their own work, tell their stories
How self-publishing came of age
What used to be seen as a last resort is fast becoming the most successful trend in writing. Alison Flood talks to the authors doing it themselves
Pottermore gives away JK Rowling’s marketing genius
Ostensibly 'giving something back', the new interactive site is also a perfectly positioned platform to sell millions of ebooks
Ebooks: the latest frontier for spam
Mike Essex: The ease with which you can license content and repackage it to sell as an ebook has created a growing problem for Amazon and other resellers – spam ebooks. Distributors are worried, too
Every good ebook needs a good editor
With the advent of ebooks, self-publishing has exploded, convincing some authors they don't need publishers. But what about the editors?
Werner Herzog reads potty-mouthed bedtime audiobook
Fitzcarraldo director gives spoken-word treatment to controversial children's book pastiche
Somethin’ Else talks apps, brands and ‘massively multiplayer books’
The firm behind Papa Sangre and The Nightjar sees a bright future for brands who look beyond the generic
Bloomsbury brings Edith Sitwell to the ebook
Publisher joins forces with Matthew Freud's literary agency to digitally republish out-of-print classics
Not Safe For Work Revisited: How the Guardian’s tech editor nearly killed me
Paul Carr: Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give him the chance to drink like a fish, and things may turn out differently