The publishing industry is using online tools to tailor its publications to what readers want — which means what’s hot on the web is what comes off the printing press.

JK Rowling has written to a teenager who found strength in the words of a Harry Potter film after her entire family were shot dead.

The US Supreme Court last month dismissed a plea from the Conan Doyle Estate.

This is a very strange book. It's about Neil Gaiman, so it can probably afford to be.

Gerard Woodward’s family gave him plenty of material to write about, but it took years to work out how, he tells Linda Herrick.

Sebastian Barry’s latest novel is a narrative of disintegration and self-destruction, written in the most lyrical of language.

Whitcoulls, the country's best-known bookstore, is reducing its offering of books as it searches for ways to make its stores thrive.

Amazon says the reasons behind its dispute with publisher Hachette is to push for a new plan to boost sales, lower prices and benefit the public.

The $100 million movie of Cloud Atlas bombed, but that didn’t halt the rising star of its author, David Mitchell, regarded by many as the greatest of his generation. now he is tweeting his latest work, writes Hermione Hoby.

The many facets of England meet in the pages of Graham Swift’s new book, writes Stephen Jewell.

From mooning a ratepayer to meeting his birth parents at middle age, former Waitakere mayor Bob Harvey has always lived a life less ordinary, as a new biography reveals.

Man Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton is among the finalists in the 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards.

The Hunger Games, Divergent series and The Fault in Our Stars are bringing about a new trend in book sales, Whitcoulls says.

In his New book, The Kitchen Magpie, James Steen presents a veritable host of household hints. Here are some of our favourite.

Martine Bailey puts a dark twist on food in her ‘culinary gothic’ novel that features real, historic family recipes, writes Stephen Jewell.

Reconsidering moments that changed everything is an old chestnut in fiction, but Linda Grant manages it with verve in this excellent novel.

Fred Robbins is an enigma, even to the person closest to him in the world, his sister Ava.

Amazon could be trying the Netflix model for e-books soon - touting unfettered access to more than 600,000 titles for a monthly fee.

My friends would say 'perhaps you're misunderstood'. People say things about me that are simply not true.