With one new book added to Amazon every five minutes, the independent bookstores in the UK that haven’t already gone out of business are struggling to compete. By launching a personal, virtual bookshop, Penguin Random House is challenging the internet behemoth at its own game.

Generally, e-reading simply involves tablets and e-books – but a new relationship is developing where literature and online virality are intertwined. Booktubers are broadcasting their favourite reads to thousands of fans. But how has YouTube become a home to bookworms?

As a publisher in the 21st century, how do you capture the attention of a generation of kids raised on tablets and computer games? Author James Frey thinks he has the answer – Endgame, a book that transcends its pages onto social networks and into the real world.

Reading is an emotional experience. Books can make you laugh, cry or feel scared - but can technology make them even more immersive? MIT's Media Lab has created a book that lets you really feel and experience first-hand the emotions and environments described in the text.

The best camera is the one you have with you in your pocket. The same might now be true for books. With smartphones growing increasingly large, will they push the e-reader into redundancy? And is the future of e-books shifting towards the small screen over dedicated devices and tablets?

There's no doubt that Amazon and e-readers have radically changed the way people buy and read books. But that's not to say that print or brick-and-mortar stores are dead. In 2015, the American Booksellers Association (ABA) counted 1,712 companies as core members, up from 1,664 in 2014.

Stressed out by mortgages, childcare and mountains of laundry, an increasing number of adults are turning to colouring books to unwind. With studies suggesting that even brief periods of art-making can reduce levels of anxiety, could this childhood pastime provide better relief than yoga?

The novel Fifty Shades of Grey's success has been attributed to the discreet nature of the Kindle, which allows readers to read what they want without broadcasting it to the world. We analyse the cultural and commercial implications of this.