BitTorrent: the comic book shop of the future?

The file-sharing firm best known for making piracy possible is now doing deals not only with film and TV companies but with graphic novel publishers too

‘Reading lists, outfits, even salads are curated – it’s absurd’

Everyone is a curator these days, but what does curationism tell us about our society? And does the process of selection and arrangement add any value?

Why live, when you can livestream?

The Periscope app, sold to Twitter for $100m, turns us into instant broadcasters. I’m hooked

One man’s quest to meld Adam Smith and Marx – by creating an Uber for jobs

Wingham Rowan wants to harness technology to make zero-hours culture less exploitative. Will his project improve our lives – or is it part of the problem?

Stories that shape: What are the best novels about the politics of technology?

Georgina Voss: Which fiction books offer us useful and powerful ways to engage with the politics of science and technology?

Will new app Rook be a useful pawn in the publishing game?

Launching later this spring, Rook provides location-based free access to ebooks with an option to buy. But some publishers might fear a great ebook giveaway

Why our resemblance to mushrooms may hold the key to life on Earth

Nick Lane’s book The Vital Question attempts to solve one of the universe’s biggest conundrums: why life is the way it is

Publish and be spammed: a new way of thinking about email

With blogging on the wane, a few enterprising sorts have gone back to the humble inbox as a new place for self-publishing to thrive

Looking at your mobile? You’re cutting off a world of creativity – and flirtation

I agree with Simon Schama: looking upwards and outwards is the source of all art, thought and literature – and enables intimate encounters

Little Black Classics carry Penguin to new heights

The success of Penguin’s highly portable commute-sized gobbets says much about what modern readers want

Edinburgh’s literary history mapped at the click of a button

‘Lit Long’, a searchable interactive map of the city will take users to locations made famous by Scottish writers – and tell you what they wrote

Clean Reader is a freaking silly idea, but in the end you can’t stop your audience being philistines

Book-lovers who’ve vanquished an app that cleans up literature are right that it’s preposterous. But once a novel is published, the author can’t control how we receive it – and it’s quite fun trying to guess what ‘freak my bottom’ really means

Why filthy literature should not be cleaned up

The Clean Reader app, which removes profanities from ebooks, is an insult to readers and to language

When Yanis Varoufakis stepped up, so did Zed Books…

The speed with which a London publisher reacted when one of its authors became the Greek finance minister tells us a lot about the power of digital technology