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Ebooks

April 2024

  • Headteachers say they are forced to mend desks and unblock toilets after losing caretakers to cuts.

    Brief letters
    Proof that teaching’s going down the pan

  • A young girl reaches for a book between bookshelves in a library.

    A page-turner: how to get your reading groove back

September 2023

  • Ford Prefect (DAVID DIXON) and Arthur Dent (SIMON JONES) dressed in dressing gown on a strange planet in the classic sci-fi comedy series.

    Revealed: how Hitchhiker’s Guide author predicted rise of ebooks 30 years ago

    In unseen notes to be published in a new book, Douglas Adams foresaw the success of a host of technology we now take for granted

August 2023

  • Amazon logo at the company logistics center in Lauwin-Planque.

    Amazon removes books ‘generated by AI’ for sale under author’s name

    Jane Friedman claims she had to fight against Amazon’s refusal to remove the misattributed titles because she had not trademarked her name

December 2022

  • Amazon Kindle Scribe review pictured on a bookshelf next to various paperback books.

    Amazon Kindle Scribe review: supersized e-reader aims to replace paper

    Monochrome device offers reading and handwriting on a big e-ink screen with very long battery life

August 2022

  • An 'augmented reality book'.

    ‘Magic bookmark’ revealed as key to augmented reality books

    Scientists have revealed their latest work on hardware that can supply the kind of background information, familiar with ebooks, for paper volumes

June 2022

  • Richard Osman.

    Murdering the competition: Richard Osman thriller tops UK library loans

    Stats from 2020-21 reveal that the Pointless presenter’s The Thursday Murder Club is the biggest hit in UK libraries

January 2022

  • Tim Adams

    Notebook
    Book readers have realised that you can’t replace the feel of turning a real page

    Tim Adams
    Record sales show that even the ability to carry thousands of books in one portable electronic device is not enough

January 2021

  • An Amazon Kindle e-reader on a bookshelf.

    Amazon.com and 'Big Five' publishers accused of ebook price-fixing

    Class action lawsuit filed in US claims the houses have colluded with the online giant to keep prices artificially high

November 2020

  • Young woman drinking coffee and using an ebook reader

    Pandemic drives ebook and audiobook sales by UK publishers to all-time high

    Printed book sales plunge in first six months of 2020 on back of shop and school closures

October 2020

  • BRITAIN-HEALTH-VIRUS<br>A woman passes the temporarily closed Manchester Central Library in Manchester, north west England on March 25, 2020, after Britain’s government ordered a lockdown to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. - Britain on Tuesday said it will open a 4,000-bed field hospital at a London exhibition centre to treat coronavirus cases in the latest measure to tackle the outbreak after the government ordered a nationwide lockdown. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP) (Photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

    Library ebook lending surges as UK turns to fiction during lockdown

    Charity says ebooks borrowing up 146% from March to August, with crime thrillers popular

August 2020

  • Reclaim Her Name, a series of 25 books being published under women writers’ names, instead of their male pseudonyms

    ‘George Eliot’ joins 24 female authors making debuts under their real names

    The Reclaim Her Name project, marking 25 years of the Women’s prize for fiction, will introduce titles including Middlemarch by Mary Ann Evans

April 2020

  • An Amazon Kindle ebookreader

    Amazon to cut price of its ebooks to reflect removal of VAT

    Chancellor drops 20% levy on online news subscriptions and books as industry struggles

March 2020

  • Amazon Kindle Oasis 2019 review

    Government will abolish the 20% 'reading tax'

    Rishi Sunak confirmed ebooks and online newspapers will no longer be subjected to sales tax

February 2020

  • ‘Other habits tracked included the times I copied excerpts from books into my iPhone’s clipboard.’

    My life in data
    'They know us better than we know ourselves': how Amazon tracked my last two years of reading

    Amazon knows more than just what books I’ve read and when – it knows which parts of them I liked the most

October 2019

  • Sony’s Reader digital book, electronic book, with its e ink display, on sale in Waterstones bookshop, London. The electronic reading device is smaller than a hardback book and can store up to 160 eBooks

    Konnie Huq and 90 MPs call for end to 'reading tax' in UK

  • Kindle Kids Edition

    Amazon launches Kindle e-reader aimed at children

August 2019

  • a young woman with a book checking her phone at a train station.

    Books blog
    Too busy? Distracted by your phone? How to love reading again

    If reading has given way in your life to social media and other distractions, it can be hard to pick it up again. But these tips could help
  • a previously unseen photo of JD Salinger on display at the University of New Hampshire.

    JD Salinger estate finally agrees to ebook editions

    Author’s son explains that wish for accessibility has persuaded trustees to look past his father’s dislike of digital media
  • Amazon Kindle Oasis 2019 review

    Amazon Kindle Oasis 2019 review: the most paper-like reader yet

    Luxury model has colour-changing frontlight that gets warmer as the sun sets
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