As part of the ongoing Apple e-book price fixing investigation by the Department of Justice, a new email sent from Steve Jobs to James Murdoch has come to light. Read More >>

Part of the Google I/O onslaught yesterday was an update to Google Play Books for both Android and iOS. In and of itself it's not exactly ground-breaking, but Google'll now let you read books uploaded to your Google Drive (through Google Books), which means cloud-syncing for your own, erm, acquired books. Read More >>

There's something eerily enticing about abandoned spaces. Stages of Decay is no exception — it's collection of photographs by Julia Solis of once-glitzy theaters that have fallen into disrepair. Read More >>

These days, the sentiment of anyone who doesn't know how to code being destined to a life of homeless ineptitude has become a fairly common (if mildly exaggerated) one. But of all the ways out there to save yourself from a derelict fate, Jon Duckett's HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites, is, perhaps, the most beautiful, information-packed intro to basic web languages you can find. Read More >>

I was shocked at what I had just done, so I laughed out loud. I was there, in a house in the Swiss mountains, lying comfortably on a sofa. I was reading Canetti's Crowds and Power, a solid 400-page book. And then, as my eyes were approaching the end of yet another page, I swiped upwards. Read More >>

Comparing books to ebooks is like comparing mechanical watches to digital watches, or manual cars to automatic cars. No one doubts the convenience, reach, and flexibility of the ebook format, but it will never convincingly replicate the experience of a paper book—nor does it need to. Ebooks are a fundamentally new medium, stuck in an awkward growing stage. Read More >>

Noted online bookshop and retailer Amazon.com is buying the excellent online books-related social network and information portal Goodreads. Well, that's a deal that makes a lot of sense. Read More >>

An Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland has identified the first literary work to be written with a word processor, instead of a typewriter. The book is Bomber, by Len Deighton, a World War II thriller published to critical acclaim in 1970. What follows is a magnificent tale which sees several fellow authors' names being put forward for this accolade, before Deighton himself was fingered. Read More >>

Fancy something good to read on your commute home? Got yourself an iPhone, iPad or Android tablet or phone? Marvel's got you covered. It's giving away over 700 first issues from its monster comic back catalogue until just after midnight on Wednesday, if you can get it to connect that is. Read More >>

Yeah, Google Doodles are normally pretty fun, though with Chrome's omnibar I rarely ever see them these days, but this one tops the lot. Google's made a real, working Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy packed with all sorts of random stuff, to celebrate Douglas Adam's 61st birthday. What can you find? Read More >>

Right now, Amazon is the undisputed king of the book and media market in the UK -- no one retailer sells more and it's already managed to kill HMV and others -- but Tesco's hoping to change that. It's apparently going to launch dedicated book and music retail sites to partner it's movie service, Blinkbox. This means war. Read More >>

It might be hard to imagine, but there was once a time where thousands upon thousands of books and arguably the sum totally of human knowledge was not readily available at your fingertips. And while it's no Kindle, Agostino Ramelli's 16th century bookwheel was a valiant attempt to make that happen. Read More >>

In addition to giving North Korea a what-for, Eric Schmidt has also been working on some other projects. He's got a book coming out about China, for instance, and after getting some time with the preliminary drafts, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that it's taking some serious shots at the superpower. Read More >>

When Arthur Buxton stumbled across a super-organized archive of Penguin's science fiction, he thought it would be interesting to look at how the covers of the books had changed over time. He was right—and the labor of his work is this striking visualization. Buxton explains: Read More >>

Penguin publishing just rereleased five of George Orwell's best works—1984, Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris and London, Homage to Catalonia, and Politics and the English Language—as "Great Orwell" editions. Read More >>