Publishing

Penguin joins settlement in US e-books lawsuit

19 Dec 2012

Penguin Group has agreed to join three other publishers in a settlement of a US government lawsuit alleging an e-book price-fixing conspiracy with Apple, officials said.

Monday Face: Michael Diekmann

17 Dec 2012

As chairman of German financial giant Allianz, Michael Diekmann is constantly on the go around the world, keeping up with the company's 142,000 employees and 78 million customers in 70 countries...

Oxford English Dictionary editor 'secretly rewrote entries'

28 Nov 2012

An eminent former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary covertly deleted thousands of words because of their foreign origins and bizarrely blamed previous editors, according to claims in a book...

Toy Box: e-book readers

26 Oct 2012

Kindle Paperwhite It began by mimicking a book, but in digital, then it added a touch screen, and the latest Kindle (HK$920-HK$1,400) takes another huge step forward.

Joyce and i-D stage joint exhibition

26 Oct 2012

Tricia Jones, co-owner of innovative British style magazine i-D, is full of enthusiasm for her new project on the mainland.

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

Newsweek will no longer print, going digital

Newsweek will print its final edition at the end of this year.

Making the planet a bit more Lonely

Lonely Planet, the travel bible for backpackers across the globe, is to triple its publications on the mainland in the next five years, at a time when outbound tourism is approaching 100 million a...

Dearie; Obsessive Compulsive Cycling Disorder; The Corruption of Malcolm Gladwell

Upon the publication in October 1961 of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, The New York Times' restaurant critic Craig Claiborne deemed it "the definitive work for non-professionals".

To our readers

From Monday August 20, the South China Morning Post and Sunday Morning Post will adopt a compact broadsheet format, in line with many broadsheets in the industry. Main section pages will retain...

OBITUARY

Helen Gurley Brown, longtime Cosmopolitan editor, dies at 90

Helen Gurley Brown, who inspired women in the 1960s to go out and get what they wanted out of life, including good sex whether they were married or not, has died.

Food, but not for thought, permeates new book megastore

It's crowded, noisy and the smell of stir-fried meat lingers in the air - those were just some of the complaints from Hong Kong book lovers disappointed by their first look at the city's biggest...