Stephen Witt: ‘Music piracy is illegal – but morally, is it wrong?’

Kitty Empire talks to Stephen Witt about his book, the first true history of how music ‘got free’

Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari review – for everyone whose date never texted back

Sexting, snooping, cheating … the comedian takes a light-hearted tour through the minefield of dating in the age of the smartphone

Ideas City: New York festival considers the way we fill space

With the theme The Invisible City, a collection of architects, artists and cyberfeminist researchers discussed the way our urban habitat can be improved

Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin review – where there’s geeks there’s brass

This history of bitcoin illuminates the cryptocurrency’s nerdy origins and vast potential

The new platform luring readers into short fiction

Manchester’s Comma Press has launched MacGuffin, which not only allows authors to self-publish in text and audio, but also gives detailed analytics showing when readers get bored

Behind a pizza-slice smile: the dark side of Pac-Man

The pill-munching arcade classic is 35 years old today, but while Pac-Man looks cute, many writers have discovered a sinister secret within

Reedsy could offer self-published authors a professional edge

The user-friendly site helps authors find editors, designers and publicists through a ‘curated marketplace’

E-lending: what does your new government mean for digital libraries?

While the Greens offered the most support for publicly owned libraries, it is hoped that all parties sign up now to the Sieghart report

Cry fowl! Why the apparently humble chicken actually has plenty to crow about

Andrew Lawler’s book Why Did the Chicken Cross the World? documents the virtues of our most important source of protein

Netflix announces good new show with bad new poem

I do not like the Netflix rhyme, I do not like it any time

Finnegans Wake – the book the web was invented for

James Joyce’s difficult masterpiece has baffled readers for over seven decades, but music, reading-aloud and digital technologies are opening up rich new interpretations

When ‘pay what you want’ means ‘don’t pay at all’

Here’s another online bookshop where you can try but not buy: is it time to give up on the pipedream?

Game on: after Marvel’s Avengers, Nintendo’s stars could be next to hit the big screen

The man behind Avengers: Age of Ultron has hopes of creating another unbeatable movie team with Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong and co

Kathy Acker’s pioneering adventures in the internet’s erogenous zone

The radical writer was quick to see the seductive possibilities of email. Twenty years ago she began a relationship conducted through the ether, with her playful correspondence now published as a book

Kink app hopes iPhone owners will co-create the next Fifty Shades of Grey

Social erotica app will get people taking turns on collaborative stories in multiple sizes, from ‘micro’ to ‘epic’, then share them with the wider world