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Duel over Apple's punishment for e-book price-fixing US antitrust attorneys defended their push to restrict Apple in the e-books market as hearings opened Friday on how to punish the the tech giant found guilty of price-fixing.

11 August 2013

Kazakhstan's Olzhas Suleimenov among 22 world's foremost thinkers Kazakhstan activist and poet Olzhas Suleimenov has got onto the list of 22 outstanding thinkers whose ideas were published in the book of Piotr Dutkiewicz and Richard Sakwa.

08 August 2013

'Fifty Shades' a must read for Guantanamo detainees Sado-masochistic best-seller "50 Shades of Grey" is popular reading among high-value detainees at Guantanamo, officials told a visiting congressional delegation.

02 August 2013

'Wild Swans' author Jung Chang speaks of China dream It may be unclear what exactly Beijing means by its aspirational "China Dream" slogan, but for banned "Wild Swans" author Jung Chang it's a positive step.

23 July 2013

Apple case cracks open e-books, digital goods pricing A ruling by an American judge that Apple illegally conspired to fix e-book prices could boost competition in the market for all kinds of digital goods, including music and movies.

12 July 2013

Author Vikram Seth asked to return $1.7m advance: report Acclaimed Indian writer Vikram Seth has been asked to return a $1.7-million advance he was paid by his publisher to write a sequel to his 1993 classic "A Suitable Boy".

10 July 2013

Apple, US government spar in antitrust trial finale Apple on Thursday dismissed allegations it conspired to raise the price of e-books and said the US government's antitrust case against it would deter new entrants to concentrated markets.

21 June 2013

'Nowhere Boy' director to make '50 Shades' film British director Sam Taylor-Johnson will direct a movie version of erotic best-seller "Fifty Shades of Grey".

20 June 2013

Mysterious Steve Jobs emails hang over Apple trial The late Steve Jobs took center stage Monday in the latest twist in the Apple antitrust trial on ebooks.

18 June 2013

Apple leader admits e-book prices rose with iPad launch Apple's chief dealmaker acknowledged Thursday that prices of best-selling ebooks rose after the tech giant launched iPad book sales in 2010, but denied any role in a plot to fix prices.

15 June 2013

Apple clashes with Amazon in e-book case Apple attorneys in the US antitrust case on e-books went on the offensive Thursday, attacking the credibility of government witnesses and seeking to debunk key elements of the government's case.

07 June 2013

Apple called 'facilitator' of ebook pricing shift Apple was accused of being a "facilitator" and "go-between" of a publishing industry shift that led to higher e-book prices, in testimony on Tuesday in a US antitrust trial against the firm.

06 June 2013

New book to dig into alleged Boston bombers' past A new book will explore the life of the Tsarnaev brothers, the ethnic Chechens accused of bombing the Boston marathon.

02 May 2013

New book sheds light on softer side of Iron Lady The authorised biography of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher hits bookshops on Tuesday, revealing an intimate side to the Iron Lady.

23 April 2013

Murakami book print run hits 1 million in week The Japanese publisher of the new novel by Haruki Murakami said Thursday it had ordered one million copies of the book, less than a week after it went on sale.

18 April 2013

Excitement builds in Japan for new Murakami novel The wait is nearly over for thousands of readers eager to get their hands on the new novel by celebrated Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami.

12 April 2013

Amazon.com buys book lovers website Goodreads Amazon.com on Thursday announced that it is buying book lovers social network Goodreads in a move that could give Kindle tablets an edge over rival electronic readers.

29 March 2013

Strauss-Kahn fails to ban tell-all book but wins damages A Paris court Tuesday turned down disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's bid to ban a "despicable" book on his affair with the author, but ordered Marcela Iacub and her publisher to pay him 50,000 euros in damages.

27 February 2013

Murakami's new book out in April: publisher Author Haruki Murakami's new novel will hit book stores in April, three years after the final instalment of "1Q84".

19 February 2013

Zulu goes high-tech When a middle-aged South African engineer recently set out to write a novel in his native Zulu, he found himself hamstrung by a lack of words to describe modern life.

10 February 2013

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