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

I worried about reopening my bookshop, but it’s brought some much-needed joy

After months of lockdown, welcoming customers back to my independent shop in Manchester has delighted us all, says Suzy Prince, co-owner of Bopcap Books

Rausings targeted in protest against Berlin bookshop eviction

Sigrid Rausing denies financial interest in building, as court orders booksellers Kisch & Co to vacate Kreuzberg premises

Covid lockdowns lead to £1.1bn loss at UK events firm Informa

Revenues plunge by 42% but firm optimistic over business reopenings in major markets of US and China

Madoff Talks: uncovering what the family of the late Wall Street fraudster knew

A new book, based on unprecedented access to Bernie Madoff, suggests it may never be possible to separate knowledge from the web of lies

Book sales jump a third in first week of bookshops reopening in England and Wales

Booksellers report giddy customers browsing and smelling books, with 3.7m print books shifted in first week after lockdown

Peter Bradshaw’s Baftas 2021 predictions: who will win – and who should

Our film critic picks his winners ahead of the big night – and the gems left off the nominations list altogether

If you like salmon, don’t read this: the art duo exposing a booming £1bn market

Farmed salmon can end up deformed, blind, riddled with sea lice and driven to eat each other. Eco art activists Cooking Sections are highlighting their plight – and getting Tate to change its menus

Why did The Bonfire of the Vanities go from bestselling book to box-office bomb?

Thirty years on, why was Brian De Palma’s star-studded adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s novel such a flop?

The Guardian view on the writing business: readers must ultimately benefit

Editorial: People want stories and that means cultivating a publishing ecosystem where big and small can flourish

Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury issues another profit upgrade

But company says reading boom may end when Covid restrictions are lifted

UK watchdog investigates Penguin owner’s Simon & Schuster takeover

CMA says it is considering whether Penguin Random House’s $2bn deal would lessen competition

Value(s) by Mark Carney review – call for a new kind of economics

This weighty assault on the modern free market by the former governor of the Bank of England is a landmark achievement

Bookshop.org raises £1m for UK’s indie booksellers amid lockdown

The profit-sharing platform, billed as an alternative to Amazon, has been used by more than 200,000 UK customers since its November launch

Furred time’s a charm? How Paddington can escape the curse of the threequel

With a third marmalade-packed outing on the cards, the onus is on Paddington to succeed where Neo, Batman and Shrek failed