Amazon to be stripped of tax advantage on sale of ebooks

European commission tells Luxembourg to end VAT loophole, a decision that could close the gap with British ebook prices

Uggie dines out in Paris to celebrate release of memoirs

Canine star of Oscar-winning film The Artist does publicity round for book, including lunch at famous Brasserie Lipp

Werner Herzog to bring Vernon God Little to the big screen

Adaptation of DBC Pierre's award-winning novel marks a return to fiction, and to Texas, for the German director

Goldman Sachs ‘muppet’ trader says unsophisticated clients targeted

Greg Smith says investment bank routinely took advantage of charities and pension funds to increase profits

Thomas Quick: the Swedish serial killer who never was

In the 1990s, he confessed to more than 30 murders. Then, he changed his name and revealed his confessions were faked. Elizabeth Day met him

David Bailey’s India: the long click goodbye

David Bailey's new collection of photographs are an affectionate tribute to an India that may not be around for much longer. But don't call him nostalgic, he tells Amelia Gentleman

If massacres like Cromwell’s avert suffering, perhaps they can be justified

Andrew Brown: David Hume's justification of Wexford and Drogheda call to mind the reasons for the end of the second world war

Atonement and Anna Karenina film director Joe Wright takes to the stage

Wright's life of Congolese rebel leader Patrice Lumumba is among highlights of Young Vic's 2013 season in London

Fifty Shades of Grey struggles to excite in France, the home of Sade

French critics dub EL James's erotic phenomenon boring, cliched and without literary merit, despite huge print run

Winsor McCay: Little Nemo in Slumberland Google Doodle celebrates a comics great

Doodle recreates the adventures of Little Nemo from the illustrator's comic strips

The arms-to-Iraq court case that became serious miscarriage of justice

It has taken James Edmiston 25 years, through divorce and bankruptcy, to win compensation after being wrongly charged with alleged illegal exports to Iraq, writes Richard Norton-Taylor

Jeremy Bowen: ‘I’ve never been into that toys-for-boys stuff’

The BBC's Middle East editor tells Rachel Cooke about the future of the Arab world, war reporting, losing colleagues and being a coward

Hobbit tourism scatters more of Tolkien’s magic across New Zealand

For millions, the Lord of the Rings films turned the country into Middle-earth. As the premiere of a second trilogy approaches, tour operators are ready for another bonanza

Syrian writer Samar Yazbek: ‘A woman like me makes life difficult’

Syrian novelist Samar Yazbek was born into a wealthy Alawite family, but became 'a traitor to her kind' to fight the Assad regime. Her latest work is a visceral, nightmarish account of the revolution that drove her into exile

The gripes of Roth: US incredulity at not winning the Nobel literature prize

Jason Farago: After a drought of nearly 20 years without a winner, Americans have become very sore losers. But there's a moral to this tale