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Book readers have realised that you can’t replace the feel of turning a real page

Record sales show that even the ability to carry thousands of books in one portable electronic device is not enough

Dave and Goliath: maverick writer Eggers makes a stand against Amazon

The author likes small bookshops. So he won’t let the online giant sell his new hardback

What is Substack and why is it proving so popular?

Firm promotes itself as alternative to ‘journalistic totems of the last century’, which it says are dying

Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk to serialise new book on Substack

Newsletter platform pays upfront sum for Greener Pastures, with no strings attached over what he writes

So Sally Rooney’s racist? Only if you choose to confuse fiction with fact

The author is the latest to suffer an attempted ‘cancelling’, one born of malice and stupidity

Why authors are turning down lucrative deals in favour of Substack

The newsletter platform has poached big names including Salman Rushdie along with a slew of comic book authors from DC and Marvel

Misha and the Wolves review – Holocaust hoax doc plays like thriller

This film about Misha Defonseca, author of a ‘memoir’ about escaping the Nazis and sheltering with wolves as a child, is propulsively watchable

Werner Herzog to tell story of Japanese soldier who refused to surrender

The German film director has announced two new books: a memoir and The Twilight World, about a remarkable second world war officer

The rise of BookTok: meet the teen influencers pushing books up the charts

Young Tiktok users are sharing their passion for books with millions – bringing titles they love to life online and reshaping the publishing world, all in under a minute

‘I couldn’t be with someone who liked Jack Reacher’: can our taste in books help us find love?

Readers are in demand on dating sites, with one focused entirely on bringing book-lovers together. But is our taste in literature truly a good indication of compatibility?

DisneyMustPay: authors form task force to fight for missing payments

Coalition of author groups call for Disney to pay outstanding royalties owed to writers of novels and comics including Star Wars, Alien and Buffy the Vampire Slayer series it now owns

Amazon to stop selling books that frame LGBTQ+ identities as mental illness

Retail giant announces decision in letter to Republican US senators about removal of book by conservative academic

Amazon.com and ‘Big Five’ publishers accused of ebook price-fixing

Class action lawsuit filed in US claims the houses have colluded with the online giant to keep prices artificially high

Alan Rickman’s 27 volumes of diaries to be published as one book

The Diaries of Alan Rickman, written by the actor until his death with the intention of one day publishing them, will be released in autumn 2022

Star Wars author appeals to Disney in fight over royalties

Alan Dean Foster claims media giant has not paid him royalties for his books after acquiring Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox

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  • AI platforms reference Nigel Farage more than other leaders when prompted on UK politics, study shows
  • Vine video-sharing app is back – and battling AI slop
  • Kokuho review – passionately male Cain-and-Abel kabuki epic of gender-crossing actors
  • GameStop makes $55.5bn takeover offer for eBay
  • The Devil Wears Prada 2: bitchy one-liners, devious double-crossing and Lady Gaga – discuss with spoilers
  • Self Driver review – cabbie who signs up for sinister app offers Travis Bickle take on the gig economy
  • ‘As reassuring as a warm hug’: why Donnie Darko is my feelgood movie
  • London schools trialling VR to relieve pupils’ stress
  • Breakwater review – troubled souls cross class and age barriers in nicely judged debut feature
  • Wikipedia founder brands Australia’s social media ban an ‘unmitigated disaster’ and ‘embarrassment’
  • Flaws in Kenya’s AI-driven health reforms driving up costs for the poorest
  • Rise of the Conqueror review – Gladiator meets throat singing as Mongol hordes ride out
  • The Devil Wears Prada 2 struts to stunning $233m opening weekend at box office
  • AI facial recognition oversight lagging far behind technology, watchdogs warn
  • Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names
  • How does live facial recognition work and how many UK police forces use it?
  • Fashion’s Faustian pact: the high cost of Jeff Bezos’s Met Gala patronage
  • Starmer adviser held 16 undisclosed meetings with top US tech bosses
  • I have an amazing holiday to look forward to – and all I can think about is how I’ll mess it up
  • UK ‘invention agency’ grants £50m of public money to US tech and venture capital firms
  • Mystery sitter in Holbein portrait could be Anne Boleyn, AI analysis finds
  • I’m a late arrival to short-form video – its effect on my life has shocked me
  • AI chatbot fraud: the ‘gift card’ subcription that may cost you dear
  • When I was seven, Jack Nicholson vomited cherry juice on me – it certainly beat doing schoolwork
  • Under a cloud: the growing resentment against the massive datacentres sprouting across Australian cities
  • From Mumford & Sons to ‘free speech’ YouTuber: Winston Marshall’s dramatic career change
  • Police are using surveillance tech to stalk love interests. Dystopia, here we come
  • ‘We have to mock the site’s insanity’: comedian Tim Heidecker on the allure of becoming Infowars’ new boss
  • ‘Sick of swiping’: the dating event where your mates make the pitch for you
  • ‘Men are so frightened of being too cuddly or affectionate’: Danny Dyer on going from hardman to heart-throb in Rivals

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