Johann Hari apologises after falsely attributing Ozempic claim to food critic Jay Rayner
Publisher Bloomsbury has promised to correct the error made in Hari’s new book Magic Pill
Gerald Cinamon obituary
Chief designer for Penguin Books with a flair for pacing illustrated nonfiction, such as with Pelican’s Style and Civilization series
Irish poetry publisher toasts new home in pub after crowdfunding campaign
Bookshop and arts centre run by Salmon Poetry is saved from closure after raising more than €60,000 from 700 individuals
UK audiobook downloads up 17% last year, Publishers Association data shows
Audiobooks are fast becoming ‘a major route to market for consumers of books’, the trade body says
The Guardian view on YA literature: an adventure for teenagers, a comfort blanket for adults
Editorial: A new survey revealing that three-quarters of readers of books for teens are over 18 has one message: read anything you like – but read
The Book-Makers by Adam Smyth review – bound to be brilliant
From calfskin to cut-and-paste, a tribute to the graft and craft that goes into books
More than a quarter of readers of YA are over the age of 28 research shows
Report commissioned by HarperCollins shows that uptake in YA fiction in older readers is due to behavioural changes described as ‘emerging adulthood’ or delaying ‘adult’ life
Hoopla around Truss and Rayner shows Michael Ashcroft still steering the debate
Former Tory chair turned political biographer and publisher is behind books that have put former PM and Labour’s deputy in the spotlights
John Miles obituary
Creator with his design partner Colin Banks of corporate identities for clients including Royal Mail and British Telecom
Survey finds generative AI proving major threat to the work of translators
While AI tools have been used by some translators to support their work, three-quarters of those surveyed believe the emerging technology will negatively impact their future income
Alexei Navalny’s memoir due to be published posthumously in October
The Russian opposition politician, who died in prison in February, completed an autobiography which will come out later this year
Meta ‘discussed buying publisher Simon & Schuster to train AI’
Audio shared with the New York Times appears to record executives discussing purchase of the US books giant to feed into its large language models
‘We may lose ability to think critically at all’: the book-summary apps accused of damaging authors’ sales
A tech sector dedicated to boiling things down has raised temperatures in some quarters of the publishing world
Elmer and the climate crisis: lost story by David McKee set to be published
The late illustrator’s elephant hero is to star in a new ecological fable after the discovery of a rough manuscript and drawings
Greg James apologises for suggestion a glass eye would make Roald Dahl Twit disgusting
Promotional video for a Twits spin-off book by broadcaster and his colleague Chris Smith is criticised by charity for the blind