The number of books self-published in the U.S.in 2018 jumped 40% over 2017, according to Bowker’s annual survey of the self-publishing market. More than 1.6 million books were self-published last year.

The critic and author of the Charles Lenox series advises doing what Michelangelo did, but backward.

It is often said that books save lives. Most of the time, however heartfelt the sentiment, it is figurative. Every once in an improbable while, it approximates the literal. But only on the rarest of occasions, in the most extreme of circumstances, do books become lifelines in the realest sense.

Word on the Water, a floating bookstore on a 1920s Dutch barge, was founded in 2011 by Paddy Screech and Jon Privett. It is currently moored in Regents Canal in King’s Cross, London. * What’s…

Susanna Clarke, whose bestselling debut sold 4m copies, will publish her second book, Piranesi, in September 2020

It’s mid-September, 2019, and we’re beginning to see the light (or to be slightly more accurate, the infinite pulsing darkness) at the end of the decade.

It only works as well as the book sells, though

Study has shown that book readers who read about fiction, drama and romance are nicer, empathetic and kinder.

Ronan Farrow's new book, "Catch and Kill," is not about Harvey Weinstein at all. It's about Farrow's failed relationship with NBC News.

The perfect reading environment is hard to come by, which may be why it so often comes with a high price tag. For around $1,500, you can own a leather library chair from Restoration Hardware (“reminiscent of chairs found in the great reading rooms of Europe”). The Levenger Catalog, which specializes in reader-friendly gewgaws, promotes a genteel fantasy of reading constructed around an “ergonomic and ambidextrous” reading table, personalized bookmarks, bespoke pens for note-taking and bespoke notebooks in which to scribble.

A mobile home for approximately 3,000 books.

The Justice Department aims to "recover all proceeds" from the whistleblower's new book. Snowden said the move shows his memoir, "Permanent Record," is "so truthful that it was literally against the law to write."

Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long while to disappear, but it’s time to be utopian

Faber is being urged to make amends for turning down George Orwell’s novella in 1944. But it is far from the only publisher to miss out on a future bestseller

Chan has been an employee of the San Francisco Public Library for 21 years and worked at all 27 branches, doing everything from shelving books to feeding hungry teenagers to helping children write letters to their mothers and fathers in prison. A conversation with her reveals that while the city's libraries are "quiet" spaces, they may be where the city's heart beats the loudest.

Amid fears about the death of books, finding new ways to bring them to life.

Are you a slow reader? Or a fast reader? Either way, here's some tips to help you get better at reading - and take more in.

Hundreds of volumes in the library and bookshops of Herne Bay have had pages torn in half, but police remain baffled

Fifty years since Apollo 11 landed, the novelist shares her favourite books and poems about Earth’s mysterious satellite

As mental health services continue to be cut, librarians are becoming a lifeline for many, says author and library activist Dawn Finch