It's free to publish a book on Amazon, but what's the catch? Turns out there isn't any. Yet when I told an elderly woman about it, she was skeptical. She liked the idea of turning her novel into a ...

Publishing is one of many fields poised for disruption by tech companies and artificial intelligence. New platforms and approaches, like a book imprint by Microsoft and a self-publishing tech startup ...

Book industry figures have described the team behind a publishing AI startup as "dingbats", "opportunists" and "extractive capitalists". The new company, Spines, will charge authors between $1,200 and ...

Amazon turned the book market on its head with its massive library of titles. Then it shifted the industry again with the introduction of the Kindle e-reader, and later, Kindle Direct Publishing. With ...