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

Apple and major publishers face lawsuit over ebook ‘price fixing’

Penguin, Macmillan and HarperCollins among firms accused of colluding to scupper Amazon's consumer-friendly $9.99 rate

The true price of publishing

William Skidelsky: Ebooks have reignited the question of what we're really paying publishers for – the physical product, or what's written inside?