We’re all ears for audiobooks – and here are some of the best

Sales have doubled in the past five years, with commuters and men aged 25 to 44 accounting for the bulk of purchases. But many of us are unable to finish them – so here are a few you won’t give up on

Home entertainment spending overtakes print sales for first time

UK music, video and games sales higher than those of magazines, books and newspapers last year

The highest form of flattery? In praise of plagiarism

Echoes of Amélie in Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, traces of Nabokov in Kristen Roupenian’s Cat Person ... Where is the line between influence and plagiarism?

Ebooks are not ‘stupid’ – they’re a revolution

The head of publisher Hachette has claimed ebooks are a failure – but as an author and a reader, they’ve completely changed my life

Can chickpeas prolong orgasm? Yes – but only in LiarTown

It’s the satirical powerhouse for the fake news era. LiarTown’s creator Sean Tejaratchi tells us how he dreamt up cooking with tears, angry cow stamps – and that old Smiths classic Lovely Gary

‘Ebooks are stupid’, says head of one of world’s biggest publishers

The chief executive of Hachette Livre, Arnaud Nourry, says the industry has had ‘one or two successes among a hundred failures’ and that ebooks have ‘no creativity’

Licence renewed: Anthony Horowitz to write official James Bond prequel

Forever and a Day, the author’s second 007 novel, will make use of material left behind by Ian Fleming to imagine Bond’s first mission

Robyn Karney obituary

Writer on films and ‘editor extraordinaire’ who set up her own film and theatre services company

I run a small, independent magazine. I worry Facebook will kill us off

For independent and non-profit outlets, small shifts in algorithms – as Mark Zuckerberg just introduced – can pose an existential threat

Spotify sued for $1.6bn in unpaid royalties as it reportedly files for IPO

The music streaming service faces a claim on behalf of artists including Neil Young and Janis Joplin as it prepares a share sale

Paddington at St Paul’s, last in classic children’s series, due in 2018

Michael Bond’s final book about the accident-prone bear will be published next year on the anniversary of the author’s death

Weinstein accuser Rose McGowan’s memoir Brave ‘will pull no punches’

The actor has alleged that the film producer raped her in 1997, and her book promises to ‘shine a light on a business built on systemic misogyny’

Weinstein Books ‘terminated’ in wake of assault allegations

Film mogul’s associated publishing imprint is to close in the wake of scandal over multiple abuse allegations

Why serious literary fiction like Ishiguro’s is vital in times like these

In our digital age, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel prize is a reminder that novels still ask the biggest questions, says the literary critic Alice O’Keeffe

Rupi Kaur: the inevitable backlash against Instagram’s favourite poet

Kaur’s verses on love, sex and race have made her the most revered – and reviled – of today’s ‘instapoets’. As a new collection The Sun and Her Flowers hits shelves, is the social media star a dark omen for poetry or a fresh voice in literature?