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The tales teens tell: what Wattpad did for girls

16 Aug 2014: Wattpad was just another story-sharing app, but then it was discovered by teenage girls. Hazal Kirci, 17, explains how it transformed her and her sisters’ lives, and made reading a craze

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Why the subscription dream of a ‘Netflix for books’ still has its limits

20 Oct 2014: Book streaming services such as Oyster and Kindle Unlimited are still struggling to get enough bestsellers on to our virtual shelves, writes James Bridle
Palimpsest grants great Scots a new lease of life

12 Oct 2014: The publisher’s Scottish Lost Treasures series brings out-of-print titles to readers of ebooks, writes Anna Baddeley
Why William S Burroughs would have loved XSS

5 Oct 2014: The beat generation author was way ahead of the virus game as it’s revealed that cross-site scripting, or XSS, makes Kindles vulnerable to hackers, writes James Bridle
Crowdsourced editing: e-publishing’s next frontier

28 Sep 2014: Innovative startup Advance Editions is turning book editing into a conversation, writes Anna Baddeley
Amazon launches Kindle Unlimited - a Netflix-for-books - in the UK

24 Sep 2014: Harry Potter, Hunger Games, audiobooks and more bundled in to £7.99-a-month subscription, following US debut in July. By Stuart Dredge
Book recommendations online: anyone for a Edwardian martial arts biblical romance?

21 Sep 2014: Adoption of Netflix-style methods for ebook recommendations may prompt a proliferation of very specific genres, writes James Bridle
With Bookbridgr, bloggers can become a Headline act

14 Sep 2014: Headline’s new website recognises how important bloggers now are to publicity campaigns, writes Anna Baddeley
Young read more books than older generation, research finds

12 Sep 2014: Study of American ‘millenials’ finds 88% of the under-30s read at least one book a year, compared to 79% of their elders
Online comics: just as much fun as their folding forebears

7 Sep 2014: With the advent of independent presses, delving into online comics can be just as much fun as burrowing through your local comic shop used to be, writes James Bridle
British Library gives teachers tools to inspire

31 Aug 2014:
Anna Baddeley: The Discovering Literature website is an important cultural resource that can be enjoyed by all ages
Bookless library opened by new US university

29 Aug 2014: Florida Polytechnic University's enormous facility promises to make 'many more books available for the students' in digital form
Waterproof e-reader launched for bathtime bookworms

27 Aug 2014: News: New device will allow readers to fully immerse themselves in their reading
Amazon and Hachette feud could rewrite the book on publishing

25 Aug 2014:
The Ebook price row has the potential to create irreversible changes to the literary world and its business models
How Amazon's bid to bury Hachette has backfired

24 Aug 2014: Amazon's suggestion that the ebook phenomenon is comparable to the paperback revolution has sparked scorn, satire and indigation, writes James Bridle
Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds

19 Aug 2014:
Research suggests that recall of plot after using an e-reader is poorer than with traditional books