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How to get your own book published: a step by step guide

Allow a budget of £4,000 to do-it-yourself, from the editing and design through to marketing

Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs

Educational publisher’s move into non-fungible tokens is intended to claw back some of the income lost to secondhand sales

‘Surreal fable’ by Derek Jarman to be published for the first time

The 10,000-word story about a blind young king and his valet will be released this autumn along with an audio version read by Jarman

‘After lockdown, things exploded’ – how TikTok triggered a books revolution

Have teenagers taken control of publishing? With some authors notching up a billion views, we look at how TikTok is electrifying the world of books – creating bestsellers, reviving classics and rescuing neglected genres

What links The Batman to High Fidelity and The Satanic Verses?

From Robert Pattinson to an indie record store and a New York super publisher, we steer the Batmobile down the rabbit hole

The hounding of author Kate Clanchy has been a witch-hunt without mercy

Publishers and other institutions are turning cowardly and brittle when faced with social media frenzies

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

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  • Australia is run on legacy systems that AI agents can easily exploit, former UN cyber negotiator warns
  • Rapper and actor Eve looks back: ‘I was the only girl in the boardroom in major label meetings – that Philly girl had to come out’
  • Democracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI
  • Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation
  • My Instagram reels addiction has ruined my ability to have a conversation. But can I get it back?
  • ‘Mum, where did my Robux go?’ The Roblox scam targeting children
  • ‘A joyful place’: a new museum coaxes Austrians to embrace The Sound of Music
  • NAZA film-makers address threats at documentary’s New York City premiere
  • Godzilla Minus Zero review – spectacular Japanese action continues franchise’s winning streak
  • Australian backlash to datacentres is faux import from US, officials say: ‘We are not the United States’
  • ‘Charming and disarming’ … how Meta’s technology-packed Muse harnesses the power of cuteness
  • Oxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian Library
  • Broken promises, confiscated land: the hyperscale AI datacentre being built in a tiny Indian village
  • The AI debate is already shaping the 2028 election. Here’s where Democratic hopefuls stand
  • Amazon’s Ring wants to replace local WhatsApp groups. It’s a recipe for curtain-twitching disaster
  • Purple reins: Philippine export ban casts shadow over UK’s love of ube
  • Drones could speed up getting defibrillators to people having cardiac arrests, study suggests
  • Russia strikes at heart of Ukraine’s digital economy with attacks on ISPs and datacentres
  • OpenAI says agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users in latest example of rogue activity
  • Trump and Chinese president Xi end summit without major agreement on AI
  • NHS boss says staff suspected of snooping on patients’ records should be suspended immediately
  • Pope Leo warns of AI threat to humanity at start of three-day France visit
  • OpenAI hack on Australian government reveals anxiety at heart of global artificial intelligence dilemma
  • Always a joker: Magda Szubanski reveals Heath Ledger asked to play her stalker on Kath and Kim
  • Our lives and identities have moved online – and it’s driving us insane
  • It’s going to take more than an email to a public inbox to protect Australians from potential AI doom
  • Cyber-attack on Dyfed-Powys police ‘may have accessed staff information’
  • BBC Sport’s digital revamp poses wider questions about purpose of the corporation
  • ‘In our deepest hearts we are voyeurs’: the paedophile-hunting show that inspired Robert Pattinson’s new film
  • The comedians turning AI anxiety into punchlines: ‘It’s so good, it’ll completely alter our grasp on reality’

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