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Old media wins battle in ebook war as Amazon raises prices to match Apple

Macmillan capitalises on bitter rivalry by forcing through price increase for digital versions of its bestselling titles

Authors cry foul over Google ‘rights grab’

Proposed settlement could prove to be one of the most important agreements in digital publishing

Amazon concedes defeat in ebook row with Macmillan

After a row in which Amazon withdrew Macmillan titles from sale in the US, the internet retailer admits it will now have to give in over the publisher's price demands for book downloads

Amazon admits it will have to give in to Macmillan over ebook pricing

In an abrupt turnaround, the bookselling giant has reversed the stance it had taken with Macmillan over ebook pricing

Palms, Kindles, Nooks, iPads – none are as cool as Gutenberg’s gadget

Simon Jenkins: For 20 years I have been trying e-books and e-newspapers – but print on paper has outlasted every obituarist

How to publish your own book online – and make money

Victor Keegan: There are now dozens of websites to help budding authors to publish their novels, poems and pictures and, perhaps, even make a profit from it

Apple iPad: the wait is over – but is it future of media or oversized phone?

Apple launches netbook aiming to rob Kindle of growing ebook market and be hottest gadget in technology history

Your guide to taking the tablets – and the e-readers and the slates

The tools to help you to make the most of the latest media slates and tablets. By Kevin Anderson

Ursula Le Guin leads revolt against Google digital book settlement

As opt-out deadline approaches, writer launches petition asking for US to be exempt from controversial agreement

Kindle users revolt against delays to ebook editions

Angry users of Amazon's e-reader have been dishing out one-star reviews of Game Change in revenge for the unavailability of an electronic edition

Is the Skiff Reader the answer for newspapers?

Web-linked touchscreen tablet that repurposes print content unveiled by Skiff. By Peter Kirwan

Mystery Amazon listing for Rough Guide to Sex attributed to ‘Doug E Style’

Author of official book taken aback by appearance of copycat title with 'naughty Viz ring'

CES 2010: The ebook revolution

The tech industry is trying to push traditional publishers to electronic books

Writers’ groups lobby US Congress against Google books deal

Letters appeal to published authors in Congress to save 'freedom to negotiate your own book contract'

Le Guin accuses Authors Guild of ‘deal with the devil’

Ursula K Le Guin has resigned from the writers' organisation in protest at settlement with Google over digitisation

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  • Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says
  • Almost half a million Lloyds customers had personal data exposed in IT glitch
  • Starmer vows to ‘fight’ social media firms to protect children from addiction
  • Labour under pressure to appoint Tory ex-minister as next Ofcom chair
  • The Wolf of Wall Street to Creed III: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • I was paid to write fake Google reviews – then my ‘bosses’ tried to scam me
  • Four wives, two passports and a very elusive butterfly: one woman’s search for her lepidopterist father
  • Keep under-fives’ screen time to no more than an hour a day, UK advice says
  • ‘Accountability has arrived’: dual US court losses show shifting tide against Meta and co
  • New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK
  • Federal judge sides with Anthropic in first round of standoff with Pentagon
  • Dark Mofo: 2026 festival to show Willem Dafoe film that can only be watched by one person at a time
  • Human rights groups cheer ‘watershed’ verdict in social media addiction trial
  • Oscars to leave Hollywood for downtown Los Angeles in 2029
  • 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’
  • ‘The internet has seen me at my best and my worst’: meet Jojo, Australia’s ASMR superstar
  • 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

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