ChatGPT appears to have become a prolific author. At the time of writing, the buzzy chatbot developed by OpenAI was credited as the author or coauthor on more than 200 paperbacks and e-books in Amazon's bookstore. The number was first reported by Reuters.

In 1977, Stephen King’s career flourished. His first three books, Carrie, Salem’s Lot and The Shining, had become worldwide bestsellers, and the author was already creating another blockbuster – over a thousand pages of The Stand. In addition, he had a drawer full of previously unpublished novels. With a frantic pace of creation (the author supported himself with stimulants), the writer had more material than he could publish. In those days, most publishers were limited to one book a year by a given author.

Imagine reading this verse from the Old Testament with no context: “When she was a prostitute in Egypt ... she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.”

Book prices in Wales need to increase for businesses to survive rising publishing costs, an industry body has warned. The Books Council of Wales (BCW) said prices had been "artificially low" to encourage customers to keep on buying. One Welsh publisher said the price of paper increased by 40% last year, with ink and glue prices rising too.

On April 29, 1969, Carnegie Hall was sold out. The artist who filled the fabled performance hall wasn’t a symphony orchestra, or a Broadway belter, or a jazz star. It wasn’t a rock band or a folk singer or any hero of the counterculture taking the stage just a few months before Woodstock. On that night, more than 3,000 fans filled the Main Hall on 57th Street to see a placid blond man wearing a sweatshirt and sneakers.

Roger Zelazny's long-gestating 'The Chronicles of Amber' adaptation might finally get made thanks to the CBS late-night host and fantasy superfan getting on board.

What are the most popular books in the world? We asked 945 book readers in 56 countries what genre of books they read in 2022 and what they plan to read in 2023. Here are the world book reading statistics from the survey results.

Along with a wealth of silent films.

The great Victorian chronicler of inequality and poverty was also a tremendous – and prolific – storyteller. Here are some of the best ways in to his colossal legacy

Holiday gift guide with the best business books to gift leaders and entrepreneurs curated by Virtual Gurus staff.

He began like many before him and many after. Though he was born before a great many things, such as printed books, Calculus, the fall of Rome, and many others, no one immediately knew he was different. He had a mother and father and brothers and sisters. He was born somewhere in France, and worked as a stone mason in a small village that has long since been forgotten.

Even as TV and streaming services are snapping up video game IP, their popularity in the literary world is waning.

Writers Ivo Victoria, Sarah Meuleman and Geert Buelens all found it liberating to move to the Netherlands. But it wasn’t long before they encountered the downsides of their destination country.

Elden Ring, the open-world, spiritual successor to the Dark Souls series, saw the involvement of Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin, who contributed to the game’s backstory. Like Dark Souls, the story of Elden Ring isn’t exactly told to the player - it is implied, hinted at through evocative item descriptions, the vague ramblings of NPC characters, and experienced through the world itself.

The first in The Nameless Republic trilogy. A complex world with a very un-European civilization. Very readable.

Book banning in libraries and schools is gaining momentum across the country.

When Ye – the artist formerly known as Kanye West – stated during a recent podcast that he doesn’t read books, some people questioned whether he was sending the wrong message to children. Those questions took on more importance in light of the fact that Ye recently launched Donda Academy, a private educational venture named after his late mother, Donda West, who was herself an English professor.

Despite assertions that he is ‘enjoying not doing anything’, author pens The Secret History of Christmas to reveal Santa’s true identity

Dame Hilary Mantel, author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy, has died aged 70, her publisher has confirmed. She won the Booker Prize twice, for 2009's Wolf Hall, the first in the Thomas Cromwell series, and its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. In a statement, her publisher said: "We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel.

In a political environment where book-banning efforts are being used to drive voter sentiment, librarians find themselves on the front lines.