Books are a different class of object, argues Toby Munday, profoundly unlike magazines, newspapers, blogs, games or social media sites. They will be damaged if they are treated as if they are the same.

Edgar Allan Poe was resolutely unimpressed by the modus operandi of the press, and in particular those sections of it in which literary opinions were offered and books reviewed.

William Maginn, who died 170 years ago today, was a child prodigy from Cork who became a brilliant newspaper editor in London. But sadly, the drink got to him.

The Book of Kells will be joined by some other outstanding Irish manuscripts on display in Trinity College Dublin in 2016.

The famous Foyle's bookshop in central London is moving to a spectacularly beautiful new premises just down the road from its traditional Charing Cross Road pitch.

A hugely successful experiment in popular intellectual publishing, established in the 1930s and abandoned at the end of the Thatcherite 1980s, is being relaunched.

First of all you knew you were going to one place or the other. Then along came purgatory. Why it was required is a complex matter, but for heavy work under ground they knew they were going to need the Irish.

France's greatest medievalist, and one of Europe's leading historians, has died after a life filled with achievement, aged ninety.

The Greeks have been asked to liberalise book prices, a move which publishing and cultural interests in both Germany and France see as inimical to the long-term health of the book sector.

It would be naive to think that new media do not have an eroding effect on old, but traditional forms of reading are not dead yet.

The London Review of Books is a marvel. Cool design, sharp opinion, cosmopolitan style, intellectual depth. How does it do it? Money.

France's most prestigious literary prize has been awarded to Pierre Lemaitre, a writer previously best known for his crime novels.

Britain's major prize for non-fiction has been won by a biography of the Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio.

The winner of the main literary prize for serious non-fiction writing in Britain is about to be announced.

More figures on e-books and paper books, more trends and countertrends. What can it all mean?

The publisher of a controversial biography of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński has agreed to withdraw the book after a protracted legal dispute.

One of Germany's most prestigious literary prizes, awarded at the start of the Frankfurt Book Festival, has gone to the Hungarian-born Terézia Mora .

Is the future of the book made from paper to be appreciated largely as a beautiful object, not necessarily destined to die out but to become a remote, old-fashioned, cultured cousin while more and more production is transferred to electronic format?

Publishers of course have always deprecated book censorship, but have they always fought it?

James Moran offers his thoughts on the new Library of Birmingham, which opened earlier this month and which puts books and literary culture at the heart of England.