The Labour Party and the Unions have decided that the latest "evil" are speculators who make "money out of other people's misery" by short-selling stock. For those who don't know short selling involves selling stock you don't own, in order to buy it back at a later date. By this mechanism it is possible to profit from a falling price. This can have the effect of creating a self-sustaining wave of ...

On the Guild website, Welsh member Gwyn Griffiths reports on support from The Association of Breton Writers for the campaign to stop Cardiff library selling rare antique books at auction. Bonhams, London, is preparing a list of more than 100 books to be sold at auction in November. It is possible,...

From Chris Snyder for Wired: ScrollMotion, a New York mobile app developer, has concluded deals with a number of major publishing houses, and is in talks with several others, to produce newly released and best-selling e-books as applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Publishers now on board...

Prominent politicians are calling for the ban on short-selling of financial stocks to be extended by the City watchdog when it expires in two weeks' time

Sorry to read that best-selling author Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park has died aged 66 after a "courageous and private battle against cancer", his family has said. He penned the books Congo, Twister and the popular Jurassic Park trilogy, all of which were adapted into films. His books have sold more than 150 million copies. He also created the long-running US hospital drama ER. He has a...

So, how many libraries are there in the UK? And is there a central listing of all of them? So that one could, if one were so minded, ask each and every one of them to stock a copy of one’s newly released book? Or would that be naughty?

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Having launched embedded audio and video last year, we're now introducing a feature which will allow the content to be embedded on third-party sites. The trial is starting with some Technology stories - you can see examples at Internet football piracy alert, Three Baftas for Call of Duty 4 and MoD under fire over helicopters. In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabl...

I’ve just stumbled across something brilliant. Abe Books - the second hand books website – has opened a Weird Books Room: ‘a celebration of everything that’s bizarre, odd and downright weird in books.’ They pick a ‘Weird Book of the...

Following on from Sunday's meme concerning how many of the allegedly top 100 books I have read, would like to read and would not touch with a bargepole, today's Guardian starts another: books that we have started but cannot finish.I have not even picked up any of the five books listed in the on-line version of the article, though I do admit to starting James Joyce's Ulysses twice but not getting p...