Waiting for the iPod moment

Interview: She founded Fourth Estate at the age of 30 and now HarperCollins's chief executive, Victoria Barnsley, wants to shape the future of her industry in a digital age. By Vicky Frost

The future of publishing: as frightening as any Stephen King story?

Concerns over piracy are the least of our worries over ebooks

A year in publishing and the end of a few eras

Rowling gives her last magical offering while Richard & Judy's Book Club will lose its impact following move from Channel 4

Here’s to the future of the book

Robert McCrum: The news media face a "perfect storm" of recession and IT revolution, but I predict books will survive the tough times

UK book trade split on Google’s publishing plans

Booksellers alarmed at digitisation deal; publishers and authors broadly welcoming

Rewriting the book on profitable publishing

Charles Arthur: An innovative business model plus cross-platform software means that home-made books need never go out of print

Google’s copyright war will have open access advocates up in arms

Seth Finkelstein on the copyright issues surrounding Google's digitising of books

File it in the bin

Most publishers no longer read unsolicited manuscripts - but that doesn't stop writers sending them in. Aida Edemariam, who has rejected more submissions than she cares to remember, investigates

Title inflation: for books, the more words the better in the era of Google

Ian Williams: Thanks to internet search engines, pithy book titles are being ruined by ever longer, keyword-heavy subtitles

A Second Life for literature

We're still waiting for the 21st century reading revolution, but in the meantime Second Life offers some interesting new diversions

Final chapter

Ian Williams: The digitisation of books is a boon for consumers - and potentially for authors - but it's killing the publishing industry as we know it

Harry Potter: the last battle

On one side: global-celebrity author JK Rowling. On the other: an amateur fan site devoted to Harry Potter. John Crace on the court case that has the publishing world holding its breath