Internet Archive accused of using Covid-19 as ‘an excuse for piracy’

The ‘National Emergency Library’ has made 1.4m ebooks freely available, many by current bestsellers, and sparked outrage from writers’ organisations

Woody Allen: ‘I would welcome Dylan Farrow back with open arms’

Director says in new memoir that not raising his adopted daughter after abuse allegations – which he denies – was ‘one of the saddest things’ of his life

Amazon bans sale of most editions of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf

Ban, which also includes other Nazi propaganda books, follows decades of campaigning by Holocaust charities

The Guardian view on new stories: helping others tell tales

Editorial: Everyone’s favourite stormtrooper will be developing new movies with Netflix – one of several creators who have turned to enabling the work of others

Woody Allen memoir may still go ahead in France, despite controversy

The film director’s book Apropos of Nothing was dropped by its US publisher after staff walkouts, but the French publisher says ‘Allen is not Roman Polanski’

Stephen King attacks axing of Woody Allen book

Writer ‘uneasy’ over US publisher’s decision to drop director’s memoir

Woody Allen’s memoirs: this is the behaviour of censors, not publishers

Hachette has succumbed to moral outrage in rejecting his autobiography

Ronan Farrow condemns his publisher over Woody Allen memoir

Writer known for #MeToo investigations – whose sister says Allen abused her – says he can no longer work with Hachette

‘Surreal immediacy’: how a 1,000-page novel became a 45-hour audiobook

Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport has attracted much attention for its length, but one publisher believes the spoken word might be its perfect medium

Stephen King says Oscars are ‘rigged in favor of the white folks’

Novelist clarifies controversial comments about diversity, acknowledging that while in a perfect world ‘judgments of creative excellence should be blind’, we’re not there yet

Audible settles copyright lawsuit with publishers over audiobook captions

Seven publishers had sued the audiobook giant last July, claiming that its audio-to-text service Captions was unauthorised

Do you want to feel really good this Christmas? Boycott Amazon

The firm’s overworked warehouse staff have had to pee in old water bottles while their CEO is paid in a second what they earn in five weeks

‘Awful and fabulous’: the madness of Flowers in the Attic

Forty years ago, VC Andrews’ novel about incest, rape and murder-by-doughnut was declared ‘deranged swill’, but new books under her name still sell. Why?

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

TV star joins delegation to the chancellor of the exchequer demanding an end to VAT on digital books, which traditional publications escape

After Caroline Calloway: should ghostwriters speak out against their subjects?

Natalie Beach’s tell-all about the controversial influencer wasn’t the first case of a ghost exposing their subject, following Julian Assange and Donald Trump