As the dust settles on last week’s Frankfurt Book Fair for another year, this one will be notable for the return of the seven-figure advance before the Fair had even got underway - proving that rumours of the demise of the printed word are very much exagg

It has been a widely held belief among eye specialists that the condition sometimes known as “word blindness” is linked to visual deficiencies. In the first study of its kind, new research has revealed that there is no evidence for such a link.

A new app called Spritz claims to be able to increase users’ reading speed to as much as 1,000 words a minute.

According to the NOP World Culture Score Index, readers in India are making the rest of us look bad.

It would run to over a million pages, featuring more than four million articles by 20 million volunteers: an "record-breaking" new project to turn Wikipedia into 1,000 books has just launched on Indiegogo .

A book editors have just released a list of their 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime.

In a future electronic world, there will be a ghastly contingency about the written word. Books have a new place as sacred objects, and libraries as museums.

New literacy scheme will recreate famous books including Wind in the Willows and 1984, in form of seating. Visitors to London will able to enjoy books in a new way next summer – by sitting on them.

Some passengers get stressed out during the takeoff and landing and that’s the time they would love to have distractions

A shed which was once named the worst in Britain has undergone a magical transformation – into the Shed of the Year.