‘This is revolutionary’: new online bookshop unites indies to rival Amazon Bookshop.org, which launched in the US earlier this year, has accelerated UK plans and goes online this week in partnership with more than 130 shops
Harry Potter publisher says Covid is weaving magic over book sales After shaky start in lockdown, Bloomsbury sales soar as people pick books over box sets
‘It’s political’: Michael Robotham and Peter Carey accuse Morrison government of abandoning authors Robotham tells parliamentary inquiry that writers are seen as ‘elites’ whose ‘existence needs to be crushed’
How a canny Kilmarnock grocer took whisky from the glens to the world Walker family used latest technology and ruthless advertising to head £5bn market, new book reveals
After We Collided: does this shock hit point the way to cinema’s future? Ignored by critics, barely marketed and released in just 47 cinemas, the YA romance has eclipsed X-Men at the UK box office and even ran Tenet close. What’s its secret?
‘We haven’t seen anything like it since Harry Potter’: UK bookshops report record week With books delayed by the pandemic reaching shops alongside other titles aimed at the Christmas market, the trade has seen sales boom
Thomas Piketty refuses to censor latest book for sale in China French economist admired by Xi Jinping says he will not cut sections on inequality in China
Ladies, don’t worry about Zoom face – the rapacious beauty industry is here to help Botox has become a solution for ageing – even for leading feminists
John Weeks obituary Economist who argued against neoliberalism and was one of those advising the Labour leadership on the development of policy
Bloomsbury India pulls Delhi riots book after anti-Muslim controversy Delhi Riots 2020 claims violence was result of Muslim jihadist conspiracy but critics accuse publisher of censorship
Book sales hit record highs in 2019, but publishers ‘now need help’ Figures for last year show sales of £6.3bn, up 20% on 2015, but the Publishers Association says sector needs government support to weather coronavirus
The Number Bias by Sanne Blauw review – how numbers can mislead us From Covid-19 to the tobacco industry to the climate crisis ... a punchy, amusing history of the deliberate misuse of statistics
Crime fiction boom as book sales rocket past 2019 levels With bookshops still closed in parts of the UK, sales have surpassed last year’s numbers, with 3.8m print books sold in the last week
The Booksellers review – warm study of a fast-shifting subculture New York’s bibliophiles provide the contents of a documentary about a once-cherished trade caught in a bind by the digital age