UK’s Team17 acquires Dublin-based StoryToys for €22m

StoryToys chief says Team17 is the ‘perfect home’ for the app developer firm

How traditional bookshops survived the Amazon onslaught

Those who were caught in the rapids went under, the more nimble adapted

Planet Business: alternative facts and a dash of Musk

This week: ‘1984’ sales spike inspired by Trump and politicians turned bank advisers

Taxamo extends to non-EU sellers

Kerry company offers VAT collection services outside EU

Sinead O’Connor to keep sex life beneath, not between, the covers

Singer claims promise to ‘dish the sexual dirt’ in memoir ‘just a funny quote’ to promote book

Love in the time of cancer: an unlikely teen best-seller

John Green’s novel The Fault in Our Stars has sold more than 10 million copies, but why is it so popular? Four teenage girls explain the appeal

US court denies Apple’s bid to delay e-books damages trial

Judge ruled last year that the conduct of Apple impeded e-book competitors such as Amazon.com

Sue Townsend, creator of Adrian Mole series, dies aged 68

Her best-known work, The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4, was published in 1982

Gill takeover is a good news story

A strong, locally owned large publisher is needed in Irish books and publishing

Apple organised price-fixing of e-books, ruling finds

Trial on damages yet to be scheduled

Apple ‘conspired’ to raise prices on e-books

Tech giant accused of colluding with five publishers to raise prices from 2009 onwards

Word for Word: why ebooks are changing everything

US takes Apple to trial on charges of conspiracy to fix price of ebooks

Lawsuit accuses Apple of conspiring to break Amazon’s hold on pricing

Grandfather of modern African literature Achebe dies

Nigerian writer made his name 50 years ago with his breakthrough novel Things Fall Apart