New chapter? UK print book sales fall while audiobooks surge 43%
Publishers hit by surprise 5.4% fall in 2018 – but warn against proclaiming terminal decline
Waterstones owner buys US chain Barnes & Noble
James Daunt will be chief of both chains after deal hailed as boost for real-world bookshops
Is the new James Bond film cursed – or just losing the plot?
Explosions, injuries, rewrites … Bond 25 seems beset by crisis. The result of intense media scrutiny, or a sign that the series is struggling to find a new direction?
Unputdownable! The bookshops Amazon couldn’t kill
Sales of printed books have risen and shops are fighting back. As the online threat mounts, UK booksellers – from chains to pop-ups – tell us how they keep afloat
Amazon blamed as ‘iconic’ bookshops announce closure
Wenlock Books in Shropshire and Camden Lock Books in London are set to close, with owners citing business rates and online competition
Bitcoin Billionaires by Ben Mezrich review – the tale of the Winklevoss twins
Coders, cocktails and a bank heist in reverse – the brothers who sued Mark Zuckerberg and hit bitcoin boom time
Why are comics shops closing as superheroes make a mint?
The latest Avengers film is expected to take $1bn in its opening week, but the shops that are those characters’ natural homes are battling to stay in business
Atlantic City: ‘Trump turned this place into a ghost town’
When Trump won the election, photographer Brian Rose made straight for the gambling town – to show the reality behind his billionaire boasts. The broken city he captured speaks volumes about today’s America
HarperCollins UK profits double due to Tolkien TV deal with Amazon
Boost from rights sale for multi-series adaptation, as eBooks continue to decline
Short story vending machines to transport London commuters
The machines, made by French company Short Édition, will dispense free one, three and five-minute stories … with the first penned by Anthony Horowitz
I worked for Waterstones for 11 years – low pay has long been an issue
A ‘stimulating job’ doesn’t pay anybody’s rent. Decent wages are long overdue, says Jim Taylor, an independent bookshop manager
Michelle Obama’s memoir sells more than 10m copies
Former first lady’s Becoming is a global hit in 31 languages and has sold 600,000 copies in UK
Waterstones says it can’t pay living wage, as 1,300 authors support staff appeal
Managing director says book chain ‘simply not profitable enough’, as Sally Rooney, Val McDermid and other authors write to protest
Larry Cohen, cult exploitation director, dies aged 77
The man behind the It’s Alive and Maniac Cop franchises also wrote scripts for TV and the Colin Farrell thriller Phone Booth
Fire sale Britain: Mike Nelson on why he turned the Tate into a big salvage yard
The artist scoured asset-stripping websites for the things British companies toss out as they close. He relives his six-month journey into a country in decline