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Sting and Trudie Styler invite Annie Lennox and friends to book party

05.11.09

Sting and Trudie Styler last night hosted a party at the Saatchi Gallery, for their friend, photographer and philanthropist Bobby Sager.... more

Rise of the fantasy and fairytale

26.10.09

Prince Charming's foot fetish and stray wolves in Grandma's bed: Louise Ridley discovers bedtime stories have new bite... more

Online shoppers promising Amazon a happy Christmas

23.10.09

Amazon’s UK arm predicted a very happy Christmas as Brits shun the High Street to buy their presents online ... more

It is not London's posties who are failing to deliver

19.10.09

Lord Mandelson has let it be known he is "beyond anger" (one imagines his condition with a thrill) about the striking postal workers. Royal Mail's managing director says their attitude "beggars belief". The chief executive, Adam Crozier, says industrial action is an "appalling and unjustified attack on customers". Huff, puff.... more

Read your phone-book

12.10.09

Apple's latest top-secret project is a gadget that could finally bring the electronic book to the mass market... more

Royal Mail must modernise or die

08.10.09

We shall find out today whether a national postal strike is on the way, perhaps even as early as next Thursday... more

'Revolution' in reading as the electronic Kindle arrives

07.10.09

Amazon has launched an electronic book in Britain in a bid to 'revolutionise' the way people read... more

Dan Brown novel is a symbol of Amazon’s faith in e-books

17.09.09

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Yes, give me bad writers with bad lives

17.08.09

A literary biography without a sex-Nazi, child-slavery, and/or hamster-rape angle is now dead in the water... more

Guide to legal music downloads is new rival for iTunes

04.08.09

Website offering a guide to cheaper legal music downloads than iTunes is launched... more

Are the social networkers now ruining it for Apple?

31.07.09

Everyone here is expecting Apple to announce at least one new product in the next month or so, just in time for the end-of-year shopping season. ... more

Why Ken Livingstone felt City Hall would need a guide to frog-snogging

27.07.09

City Hall staff ordered a bizarre set of self-help books in the run-up to the mayoral election, it has been revealed... more

Amazon takes a tumble

24.07.09

Legions of Stephenie Meyer fans could not stop Amazon slumping to a 10% fall in profits ... more

Get ahead with the wow factor

20.07.09

To be hard-working but invisible in today's job market is not an option. Only people with the wow factor will get ahead, says Helen Kirwan-Taylor... more

DJs 'in iTunes scam to boost their royalties'

10.06.09

A group of London-based DJs allegedly used stolen credit cards to buy their own music on iTunes and Amazon in a scam that netted nearly Ł200,000 in royalties... more

Vampire love stories bat for Amazon

24.04.09

A love story with a bite has helped internet giant Amazon to shrug off the recession... more

Amazon lays down 29p download challenge

06.04.09

Amazon has sparked an online price war with Apple after dropping the price of its top music downloads to 29p... more

Bluffer's guide to The Wire

06.04.09

It’s tortuous, dark and utterly gripping. As cult series The Wire hits mainstream TV, here’s how you can be in the know about Barack Obama’s favourite show ... more

Off the record: My pop odyssey

20.03.09

It's a strange trip from Animal Collective to Leonard Cohen as David Smyth takes a tour of the new online music recommendation services.... more

Sony and Google in digital books tie-up

19.03.09

Sony has teamed up with Google to fight back against Amazon’s lead in offering digital books through hand-held electronic reading devices... more

MP calls for rape game to be banned

25.02.09

A senior Labour MP said he was "appalled" that a computer game that allows players to simulate stalking and raping women and children on the subway was available for sale on the internet... more

No more 'wrap rage' as Amazon pledges to cut its packaging

18.11.08

Amazon has launched a campaign to reduce excessive and annoying packaging in the products they ship out... more

Literary Life

08.10.08

Celebrity sells at an astonishing rate, yet at its heart the UK still loves a book for itself and London is a great champion of literature. These are the people who keep us reading. ... more

Retail

08.10.08

These are the people who will steer London’s vital retail world through what looks like difficult trading ahead ... more

New Media

08.10.08

London is one of the greatest digital hotspots outside California's Silicon Valley and these are the people leading the way... more

Yes, this could be a real page-turner for HMV

09.09.08

Waterstone's had something of a coup last week, gaining the exclusive rights to launch the Sony eReader — the first true electronic book reader to make it to these shores... more

'Call me Tim' is dim when it's time for P45s

21.08.08

The departure of Tim Parker from City Hall can be seen as a salutary lesson for any business heavyweight fancying their chances at the top of local government... more

Life after Harry Potter: JK Rowling to release a series of fairy tales

31.07.08

JK Rowling has announced her first book to hit the shelves since Harry Potter's final outing - a series of fairy tales.... more

Economic slump aids online trade

24.07.08

Online retailer Amazon.com has increased sales by more than 40% and doubled quarterly profit, suggesting that the economic slowdown might be, for now at least, benefiting internet traders... more