Comics capture digital readers – and grab more print fans

More and more devotees of ‘sequential art’ have begun to consume stories on e-readers and online, but what does that mean for paper?

Amazon set to pay self-published authors as little as $0.006 per page read

Writers of shorter works could lose out on revenue as company’s Kindle Owners Lending Library and Kindle Unlimited no longer pay per copy downloaded

How to get generation YouTube reading books…

Publishers understandably want to cash-in on those with huge online followings, but they’re missing a trick by ignoring book lovers in favour of gamers and fashionistas

Margaret Atwood draws cartoon strip for ‘geek girl’ anthology

The novelist is contributing her own cartoons, detailing her experiences as a young woman, to Kickstarter-funded The Secret Loves of Geek Girls

Amazon’s ‘pay-per-page’ plan could alter writing as well as royalties

The retail giant’s new way of calculating payments for Kindle book loans has worrying implications for how literature is read – and how it’s written

British children’s stories startup Lost My Name tells a $9m funding tale

After 600k personalised picture-book sales, London firm secures investment from Silicon Valley firms Google Ventures and Greycroft

In anyone’s language, AmazonCrossing is a hit

The literary translation market is growing and, with 70 new titles projected for this year, Amazon’s foreign fiction imprint is leading the field in the US

Twitter would never have waited two months for Wellington’s funeral

‘Wait’ is a word that belongs to earlier times, when news travelled no faster than the quickest horse or swiftest boat

How to swap games consoles for books (and get kids reading)

Alex Scarrow’s son was a gamer not a reader, so that’s why he decided to use every trick he learned as a games designer to write addictive books that keep readers coming back for ‘just one more go’

Global cybercrime has infected the very soul of capitalism with evil

The global financial system could have been designed to make life easy for tech-savvy crooks and criminals. And the damage they are causing is incalculable

Nothing can stop a good story, however badly told

Collective translations into Vietnamese of Chinese network-generated fiction have caused outrage – but their popularity is undeniable

YouTube star PewDiePie strikes publishing deal for This Book Loves You

With 37m YouTube subscribers, Swedish gamer teams up with Penguin Random House for 250-page collection of ‘advice and inspirational quotes’

European commission to investigate Amazon’s ebook dominance

US tech sector’s problems with Brussels deepen as competition chief focuses on allegedly restrictive contract clauses

JK Rowling hints Fantastic Beasts movie will reveal ‘American Hogwarts’

Twitter exchange suggests Harry Potter author will also draw on Native American traditions for the ‘magizoology’ script she is working on

VAT changes are a mere nuisance for huge retailers, but a real blow to self-published authors

The closure of the loophole whereby Amazon routed EU online sales through Luxembourg has had an unintended negative effect on writers