‘After lockdown, things exploded’ – how TikTok triggered a books revolution

Have teenagers taken control of publishing? With some authors notching up a billion views, we look at how TikTok is electrifying the world of books – creating bestsellers, reviving classics and rescuing neglected genres

What links The Batman to High Fidelity and The Satanic Verses?

From Robert Pattinson to an indie record store and a New York super publisher, we steer the Batmobile down the rabbit hole

The hounding of author Kate Clanchy has been a witch-hunt without mercy

Publishers and other institutions are turning cowardly and brittle when faced with social media frenzies

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

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

Dave and Goliath: maverick writer Eggers makes a stand against Amazon

The author likes small bookshops. So he won’t let the online giant sell his new hardback

What is Substack and why is it proving so popular?

Firm promotes itself as alternative to ‘journalistic totems of the last century’, which it says are dying

Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk to serialise new book on Substack

Newsletter platform pays upfront sum for Greener Pastures, with no strings attached over what he writes

So Sally Rooney’s racist? Only if you choose to confuse fiction with fact

The author is the latest to suffer an attempted ‘cancelling’, one born of malice and stupidity

Why authors are turning down lucrative deals in favour of Substack

The newsletter platform has poached big names including Salman Rushdie along with a slew of comic book authors from DC and Marvel

Misha and the Wolves review – Holocaust hoax doc plays like thriller

This film about Misha Defonseca, author of a ‘memoir’ about escaping the Nazis and sheltering with wolves as a child, is propulsively watchable

Werner Herzog to tell story of Japanese soldier who refused to surrender

The German film director has announced two new books: a memoir and The Twilight World, about a remarkable second world war officer

The rise of BookTok: meet the teen influencers pushing books up the charts

Young Tiktok users are sharing their passion for books with millions – bringing titles they love to life online and reshaping the publishing world, all in under a minute

‘I couldn’t be with someone who liked Jack Reacher’: can our taste in books help us find love?

Readers are in demand on dating sites, with one focused entirely on bringing book-lovers together. But is our taste in literature truly a good indication of compatibility?

DisneyMustPay: authors form task force to fight for missing payments

Coalition of author groups call for Disney to pay outstanding royalties owed to writers of novels and comics including Star Wars, Alien and Buffy the Vampire Slayer series it now owns

Amazon to stop selling books that frame LGBTQ+ identities as mental illness

Retail giant announces decision in letter to Republican US senators about removal of book by conservative academic