If "unputdownable" means "putdownable" and "educational publishing" is "anything that's not trade publishing," what does "quality" mean in an insider's lexicon of the book industry? Ask Richard Charkin.

Carnegie medal winner Geraldine McCaughrean has castigated the books industry for dumbing down language in children's literature, warning that a new focus on "accessible" prose for younger readers will lead to "an underclass of citizens with a small but functional vocabulary: easy to manipulate...

Words-to-be-read are losing ground to words-to-be-heard, a new stage of digital content evolution

Imagine you're in an airport boarding lounge, or the waiting room at virtually any train station or bus terminal in the Western world. Maybe you commute to work or school by subway. It doesn't matter. Look around. Somewhere in there, among hundreds of fellow travelers, lurks the shade of a tall...

• ‘"I'm writing a book." The very phrase seems self-indulgent and strange, more so at a time when we count the words and minutes, even the characters and the seconds.

If you have been following tech news then you've probably heard the term blockchain mentioned more than once. This word is rarely explained in non-technical terms, but it is thrown around a lot by tech companies trying to get in on the hype.