Richard Branson: Never do anything that discredits the brand
The Virgin founder on the lessons of turning failure into success, the ice-bucket challenge and space travel. Interview by Alex Clark
Richard Branson failed to deliver on $3bn climate change pledge
New book by Naomi Klein reveals that Virgin founder gave less than a tenth of cash promised to develop low carbon fuel
Were the 70s football’s golden age?
As a new photography book celebrates 70s football, Ed Vulliamy charts his own relationship with the game, from bunking into an FA Cup final to the death of innocence at Heysel
Business Adventures – why Bill Gates’s favourite book is back at the top of the bestseller lists
It is 43 years old and was out of print for ages, but the Microsoft mogul's approval has caused a brand new surge in sales
Amazon at 20: billions, bestsellers and legal battles
Mark Hooper: It's 20 years since an ambitious entrepreneur named Jeff Bezos registered the company that would become Amazon. How did it get so big so fast?
Bad Banks: Greed, Incompetence and the Next Global Crisis review – a rogues’ gallery of financial scandal
Alex Brummer's demolition job on the scandals of the last 10 years is a work of controlled menace, writes John Kampfner
Rap Genius raises $40m for move into history, sports, literature and more
US startup rebrands as Genius: 'Any text can be as layered, as allusive and cryptic, as worthy of careful exegesis as rap lyrics...' By Stuart Dredge
Apple settles $840m ebook price-fixing case
Settlement avoids trial judgment over conspiracy with publishers to raise the price of ebooks in the US. By Samuel Gibbs
From mother to daughter: ’20 years on, having it all is still just a work of fiction’
Maeve Horan's 90s novel about a working mum struck a chord around the world. As she prepares to publish a sequel, does her daughter think we have moved on, asks Yvonne Roberts
Foyles pins hopes on old-fashioned books with new literary temple
Bookseller concedes dominance of ebooks, but aims to be king of what it does best with flagship store in London• History of an idiosyncratic bookseller
Foyles: potted history of idiosyncratic British bookseller
From humble beginnings to HQ of 1930s literary set, eccentric decline and bold revival … 111-year-old tale has never been dull• Foyles pins hopes on old-fashioned books with new literary temple
Ebooks on course to outsell printed editions in UK by 2018
Consumer ebook market set to almost triple over next four years while PwC predicts sales of printed editions will fall
The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison – review
'All the ways a women can hurt': this collection by a young journalist and novelist excels when it focuses on the female body and pain, writes Brian Dillon
Amazon tells customers to shop elsewhere in Hachette row
Row between world's largest distributor of books and publisher over ebook royalties shows no sign of being resolved
Thomas Piketty’s real challenge was to the FT’s Rolex types
Paul Mason: If the FT's attack on the radical economist is right, then all the gross designer bling in its How To Spend It section can be morally justified