Crime writer Petros Markaris channels Greek rage into fiction
Murders at heart of new book resonate strongly with a mass readership furious at Greece's tax-dodging elite
Rivals launch a printing revolution that could be as significant as Gutenberg
Landa and Xeikon to unveil new inkjet and toner technology at drupa exhibition in Düsseldorf. By Mark Piesing
Microsoft invests $300m in Barnes & Noble’s Nook ebook business
Barnes & Noble shares soar as deal with software giant eases fears that bookseller lacks capital to compete with Amazon
The New Few: Or a Very British Oligarchy by Ferdinand Mount – review
Ferdinand Mount's mild views on banks and bonuses count as a radical position these days, writes Andrew Anthony
Abhijit Banerjee: ‘The poor, probably rightly, see that their chances of getting somewhere different are minimal’
The author of Poor Economics on why aid that assumes the poor will do the right thing is misguided – and why political corruption does not necessarily mean economic stagnation
Apple accused by US of colluding with publishers to fix price of ebooks
Lawsuit filed by US department of justice claims Apple ended price competition after seeing success of Amazon's $10 ebooks
Tim Waterstone warns Amazon tax avoidance could kill off bookshops
Founder of UK books chain says Amazon tax planning fits pattern of 'rude, contemptuous, arrogant' online company
Amazon a ‘dangerous’ force, says Ottakar’s founder
Amazon is damaging the high street book trade and threatens to undermine the nurturing of new talent, argues James Heneage
Another account of ‘The Natwest Three’ fraud case hits bookshops
David Bermingham's book – A Price To Pay: The Inside Story of the NatWest Three, comes two months after the publication of Gang of One by his former boss, Gary Mulgrew
Ebooks VAT should be slashed to zero in 2012 budget, say publishers
Publishers Association adds voice to 5,000-strong petition calling for VAT on ebooks to be abolished, to align with print books
Imran Khan pulls out of conference over Salman Rushdie booking
Pakistani cricket-star-turned-politician drops out of India lineup after learning of Satanic Verses novelist's participation
Sellafield: ‘It was all contaminated: milk, chickens, the golf course’
Six decades after Britain's worst nuclear accident, an oral history of Sellafield reveals what it felt like to live near the plant. John Vidal reports
Real-life Watership Down fights housing development
The Berkshire setting for the 1972 book about countryside under threat faces the same fate, with the author leading the fight
Greenwash and hamming it up – Mazda makes a mess of CX-5 advert
Ed Gillespie: Mazda adopts a Dr Seuss story, the Lorax, to sell its new compact SUV, but there's no disguising how ordinary the car is
Pearson reports 72% rise in profits
Ebook revenue growth helps push Pearson to pre-tax profit of £1bn for 2011. By Mark Sweney
Author raises $1m to self-publish Order of the Stick webcomic book
Rich Burlew becomes crowdfunding site Kickstarter's most successful creative project
Amazon Publishing bookshop boycott grows
Independent booksellers join Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million and Canadian chain Indigo in refusing to stock retail giant's own books
Waterstones ends unpaid work placements after investigation
Waterstones stops using unpaid jobseekers, as government rebuts claim that scheme is contrary to Human Rights Act
Pearson reveals profit upgrade and predicts 10% boost in full-year earnings
Financial Times publisher says it earned £2bn in digital revenues last year and £600m from emerging markets. By Mark Sweney
Ebooks help Dixons to look on the bright side
Electricals firm confident it can repay £160m bond as IT support service demand improves profit margins
Bloomsbury publishing had a bumper Christmas
Sales of ebooks up 38% thanks to bestsellers such as Heston at Home. By Mark Sweney
Pity the Billionaire by Thomas Frank – review
The banks escape sanction, Obama cowers, writes David Bromwich
McDonald’s to give away 9m Michael Morpurgo books with kids’ meals
Fast-food giant will give away Mudpuddle Farm books for younger readers with purchase of food
Paul Mason: ‘Economics has become about people and their troubles’
Newsnight economics editor Paul Mason talks to Carole Cadwalladr about global revolution, his musical past and the girl biker gang in his first novel
Apple’s struggle to defeat Amazon set to be exposed by European ebook inquiry
The deal that the iPad maker struck with publishers could be threatened by an inquiry into the prices people in the EU pay for their digital reading
China banks on bloody blockbuster to win friends … and Oscars
State partially funds Zhang Yimou's The Flowers of War – starring Christian Bale and set during 1937 Rape of Nanking – to boost nation's film industry
Amazon.com branded ‘Grinch that stole Christmas trade’
Outrage from booksellers over online discount given to shoppers who report high-street prices
Amazon.com extends publishing arm into children’s books
Bookseller steps up move into publishing with acquisition of 450 children's titles from Marshall Cavendish
ebook price fixing: Apple and five publishers face EU inquiry
Inquiry to find out if publishing houses and iPad makers have conspired to take on Amazon's dominance. By Juliette Garside
Barack Obama backs independent bookshops
US president goes on book shopping spree to mark 'Small Business Saturday'
Small is beautiful – an economic idea that has sadly been forgotten
Madeleine Bunting: The Big Ideas: It is chilling that so many thinkers, politicians and academics have signed up to the deadening consensus of globalisation
Amazon takeover of Book Depository ‘threatens future of bookselling’
The Office of Fair Trading's approval will give the web giant 'a complete stranglehold on the market' according to Booksellers Association
Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour by Michael Lewis – review
From the anal Germans to feuding Greeks, Michael Lewis finds blame for Europe's credit crisis in national characteristics, writes Andrew Anthony