Twitter fiction: Sabine Durrant

The writer and journalist takes up our Twitter-based challenge to come up with a story in 140 characters or fewer

Amazon faces whistleblower’s claims over UK business tax practices

Margaret Hodge, chair of public accounts committee, signals company interview to come on tax arrangements

Fresh questions for Amazon over pittance it pays in tax

Exclusive: Guardian investigation shows key role of British-based staff in pushing tax rulebook to its limits

From Suffolk book plant to British readers but will novel generate UK tax?

Journey of new novel shows how book printed and published in Britain – and bought on Amazon – is taxed in Luxembourg

My desktop: TC Boyle

The novelist talks us through his reluctant engagement with the digital age, and his strategies for escaping it

Amazon launches Coins virtual currency

Web giant introduces new way to pay for apps and games with giveaway to Kindle Fire users. By Alison Flood

Melanie Phillips: she’s putting the world to rights

Profile: The controversial columnist, who has moved inexorably over the years from left to right, has now launched her own publishing empire 'to make a better world'. Will readers, including her fans in the US, buy into her vision?

Charlaine Harris threatened by fans over final Sookie Stackhouse novel

Author of longrunning vampire saga – inspiration for TV's True Blood – becomes target of online vitriol for her choice of ending

Coverflip: author Maureen Johnson turns tables on gendered book covers

Novelist challenges readers to flip genders of famous book covers and expose publishers' sexist attitudes to women's fiction

Candace Bushnell’s latest work leaked by hacker Guccifer

Opening 50 pages of Sex and the City author's new novel made available online, along with her agonised emails to publisher

Midsummer Night’s Dreaming: the RSC takes a smattering of Google fairy dust

Robert McCrum: An internet production of Shakespeare's classic comedy is not so much the RSC dumbing down as Google flaunting its cultural credentials – and that can only be a good thing

Interactive novels: pretty but pretty exhausting

The iPad app of John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps is breathtaking to look at but the storytelling is desperately slow, writes Anna Baddeley

Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog, the book that changed the world

Stewart Brand was at the heart of 60s counterculture and is now revered as a tech visionary whose book anticipated the web. Carole Cadwalladr met him