With e-books, tablets and social networks, the digital future of publishing seems less the stuff of science fiction and more an often uncomfortable reality. But instead of consigning traditional publishing models to a black hole, Will Atkinson, Faber & Faber’s sales and marketing director, argues that many publishers are trying to...

As Mary Beard, Cambridge University’s professor of classics picks up the phone; I hear the chime of her computer. She has just filed the latest instalment of “A Don’s Life”, her regular TLS blog. I read it later, and find her being characteristically subversive, this time about the disruption caused by the...

When 17-year-old Alex Woods is stopped at Dover Customs with four ounces of cannabis, he is struggling to maintain consciousness, visibly perspiring and listening to classical music full blast. He’s driven from Zurich in a car that isn’t his, and there is an urn of ashes on the passenger seat. He’s had quite the holiday, you...

Charlie Redmayne has been in the top job at Pottermore for a year now, casting numerous multimedia spells along the way to enchant its 40 million-strong fanbase.

Leaving his role as HarperCollins’ chief digital officer in November 2011 (Redmayne was brought in to spearhead the publisher’s digital transformation), he has...