JK Rowling’s ego akin to Kim Kardashian’s, says Joanna Trollope
City of Friends author claims Harry Potter creator’s ‘insatiable desire’ to air opinions on Twitter is threat to literary industry
Make it your hone: the ebook that you are forced to edit as you read
On each page of A Universe Explodes by Tea Uglow, owners are required to add one word and remove two – which amounts to an odd reading experience
The Circle review – Emma Watson and Tom Hanks face off in empty techno-thriller
The Harry Potter alumna missteps after the $1bn success of Beauty and the Beast with a Dave Eggers adaptation that swaps initial intrigue with vapidity
‘Screen fatigue’ sees UK ebook sales plunge 17% as readers return to print
Consumer sales down to £204m last year and are at lowest level since 2011 – when Amazon Kindle sales first took off in UK
Move Fast and Break Things review – Google, Facebook and Amazon exposed
Jonathan Taplin reveals how three companies subverted the internet’s utopian ideals
Pics Or It Didn’t Happen: reclaiming Instagram’s censored art
The authors of a book curating 270 images that Instagram censored explain why they are making them visible again
Speed-reading apps: can you really read a novel in your lunch hour?
Apps such as Spreeder and Spritz are bringing speed reading back into fashion. But what gets lost in this race for the last page?
Digital love: why cinema can’t get enough of cyberpunk
Ghost in the Shell is part of a cult subgenre whose lineage stretches back to the 1920s – and whose visions have never seemed so prescient
Douglas Coupland: ‘The nine to five is barbaric’
The Generation X author on the future of work and how we’ve all turned into millennials
How to finish a novel: tracking a book’s progress from idea to completion
Data from an app Wyl Menmuir used to help him write his Booker-longlisted debut gives insights into how it was done
How the 20,699-word iTunes T&Cs became this year’s hottest graphic novel
Snoopy contemplates pre-orders and the Hulk navigates iTunes Match … here Robert Sikoryak discusses his ingenious take on Apple’s Terms and Conditions
How the Hitchhiker’s Guide can make the world a better place
Douglas Adams’s sci-fi classic has inspired real-life tech innovations. So what else could we rip from its pages to aid our ailing society?
‘Sex and poetry have always gone together’ – meet Grindr’s new poet in residence
The gay dating app has appointed LGBT writer Max Wallis to be its first resident bard. I’m continuing what Byron started, he says
Irresistible: Why We Can’t Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking and Watching – review
A fascinating study by Adam Alter explains why many of us find our smartphones and computers so addictive
Steven Johnson webchat – your questions answered on Trump, climate change and VR
The pop-science writer behind Everything Bad is Good for You and Wonderland came in to answer your questions, on everything from innovation in science and technology, to his thoughts on the Trump administration