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Philip Stone, charts expert: Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Played with Fire returns to the eBestseller Top 10 after a week's hiatus while the 2007-published Truth Dare Kill becomes Gordon Ferris' second book to chart this year. His The Hanging Shed, still available for just £1 on Amazon four weeks after the £15.99 HB edition hit the shelves, continues to be among the most downloaded books on Amazon.co.uk. Thus far in 2011, just 19 different titles have cracked the ebestseller list Top 10, just half the number of the printed book equivalent which has welcomed 39 different books. Read more »

This video gives a great round-up of our November FutureBook conference. The conference showed how well collaborations can work between developers, authors and publishers.

Today, we have launched our Innovation Workshop in collaboration with The Literary Platform, which looks at this from a different angle. The workshop will explore innovation across the book trade and showcase developers. This workshop is aimed at those who understand what we try today may very quickly be adopted. Read more »

Philip Stone, charts editor: Margate-born Nick Alexander's The Case of the Missing Boyfriend debuts as the highest new entry in this week's e-book chart thanks to solid download numbers at Amazon.co.uk. The £1.49 ebook (85% off its recommended £8.99 r.r.p.) is "by far the most important" of his career, according to Alexander, as "unless it is a success, it's not entirely clear that I will be able to afford to even carry on writing". Read more »

Lee Harris, editor at Angry Robot Books explains how this can happen: Yesterday we announced that we’ve just signed an author that we discovered on Twitter. Great headline, but how much truth was behind it? Well, perhaps surprisingly… all of it. Read more »

Charts expert Philip Stone: The first book in Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, returns to the summit of The Bookseller's eBestseller chart after a week's hiatus, while "the next Stieg Larsson" Jo Nesbø's The Redbreast joins the Top 10 as the only new entry. According to Waterstones.com, the latter is "Book 1" in the Norwegian's Detective Harry Hole thriller series, but in actual fact it is the third book in the series. The first two titles, The Bat Man and The Cockroaches, are yet to be released in the UK. Read more »

Philip Stone, charts editor: Benjamin Daniels' light-hearted memoir, Confessions of a GP, returns to The Bookseller's e-book chart following a two-week hiatus, thanks to solid downloads at Amazon, Apple and Waterstones.com.

David Nicholls' One Day, one of the freebie giveaways on World Book Night, is the only other new or re-entry in this week's Top 10, charting in 10th position after a three-week hiatus. The ebook sits high up in the bestseller lists of the same three retailers. Read more »

I am pleased to unveil the shortlist for FutureBook's first ever digital innovation awards. They come from all sides of the business, including Waterstone's, Penguin, Nosy Crow, SBS Worldwide, Random House, Osprey and Self Made Hero. We had a very tough job whittling down the 93 awards entries. So congratulations to everyone that made it into the shortlist.

FutureBook awards shortlist Read more »

Ian Rankin has kindly agreed to answer a few questions on his views on Twitter. I'm hoping this will kick off some more opinion pieces from authors on wider digital publishing issues. Big thanks to Ian.

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Book reviewer and editor Regina de Búrca has reviewed this app for FutureBook: ‘The Lost Journey’ is a prequel to Susie Cornfield’s YA Dekaydence novels, Read more »

OverDrive have provided their Top 10 lists for downloaded e-books and audiobooks from libraries in the UK in February. Read more »