The internet has created a new industrial revolution

Chris Anderson: Anyone with a good digital idea can create a successful online business. So are the 'Makers', who are harnessing these new technologies, helping to reboot the manufacturing industry?

Robert Heller obituary

Business journalist and author of a stream of books on management in which he explained the 'tricks of the trade'

Jessica Ennis joins race with Nigella, Jamie and Salman Rushdie for books’ Christmas No1

Chase for Yuletide sales begins in earnest today, with 217 books published, and an autobiography from Ennis not far behind

Andy McNab sells stake in Mobcast ebook business to Tesco

Former SAS soldier makes almost £1m after ebook platform he co-founded was purchased by the supermarket firm

How to bounce back from recession? Grant Shapps might know

Ebook written under pseudonym used by minister tells readers to keep cool and weave a shawl to beat the recession

Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order by Philip Coggan – review

Philip Coggan brings historical perspective and home truths to his analysis of the economic state we're in, writes Brian Morton

John Lewis to be first UK retailer to sell Nook e-reader

US bookseller Barnes & Noble seeks to loosen Amazon's grip on digital book market in Britain

Barnes & Noble to launch Nook e-reader in UK

Publisher backed by Microsoft has Amazon's Kindle in its sights in first expansion outside US

Financial crisis-themed reading as Europe takes a holiday

Barry Eichengreen: No need for Europeans to waste a day at the beach – take a book and learn the lessons of the Great Depression

Dealing with the legitimacy of money’s distribution

Raghuram Rajan: Because money's anonymity obscures its provenance, it may be socially less acceptable as a payment medium for some objects

Derek Scott obituary

Former Blair adviser who foresaw dangers from the European single currency

Penguin profits slump, but ebook revenues rise 33%

Penguin parent Pearson blames success of Fifty Shades of Grey for 48% fall in operating profit. By Mark Sweney

We need the good life, not pre-washed salad leaves

Edward Skidelsky: An economic system geared to the endless production of baubles and gadgets has led us to disregard our basic human needs

Shorter cuts: news doesn’t get any smaller

From the adulterous albatross to the man who claims watching the Martin Scorsese film Hugo was a miracle cure

The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King by Rich Cohen – review

A colourful account of the rise to wealth and power of Sam Zemurray, America's great fruit tycoon, makes entertaining reading, writes Peter Conrad