Wylie’s Amazon deal brings the end of the publishing world nigh

News that power-broking agent Andrew Wylie has bypassed conventional publishers to sell his clients' ebooks direct to Amazon has created panic. Is it curtains for conventional publishing?

Penguin’s next march

Claire Armitstead: At 75, the venerable old bird now faces the kind of challenge that it once posed to publishing itself

Amazon’s ebook milestone: digital sales outstrip hardbacks for first time in US

Amazon US says it has sold 143 digital books for every 100 hardbacks in the last three months

Ebook deals ‘not remotely fair’ on authors

Digital publishing deals locking writers in for the duration of copyright risk damaging industry, says Society of Authors chair

Google to launch ebook store

Google Editions will allow customers to download and read books on any device with a browser

Bloomsbury hopes new book covers will recapture the Harry Potter magic

The book publisher has reported a 35% fall in profits last year but plans to talk with Apple about an iPad ebooks application

Apple’s iPad may give media executives a chance to make money

New tablet device goes on sale this week. By Richard Wray

Ian Cameron obituary

Publisher of Movie magazine and books on cinema and art

Print is beauty bound – even in a digital age

Jonathan Jones: The internet may be taking over from the printing press, just as Dürer's timeless engraving Melencolia I spelled the end for medieval scriptoria, but let us remember that print is beautiful

Undercover between covers: publishing’s secret agents

David Barnett: The industry's dark secrets are being exposed by a new breed providing welcome intelligence on its inner workings

Thousands of authors opt out of Google book settlement

Some 6,500 writers, from Thomas Pynchon to Jeffrey Archer, have opted out of Google's controversial plan to digitise millions of books

Ruling due on Google’s book plan

Google insists that it will not back down on plan to digitise and sell books online

Authors join fight in Macmillan’s battle with Amazon

Writers hit by Amazon's removal of their titles are cutting links to the online shop and calling on readers to boycott it