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?
Amazon redacts one-star reviews of Hillary Clinton’s What Happened
Hundreds of damning verdicts on memoir of 2016 presidential race, posted within hours of publication, have been removed by the online bookseller