Some people, my parents included, believe that the e-book is a rather pointless invention that will “never replace a real book” (huge emphasis on the word “real”).

If I can read on my new iPhone4, then why would I bother to invest in an iPad? It is after all, just a big iPhone but with less features isn’t it?

These are the moments in self-publishing when you long for an agent, pine for a publicist, or anyone for that matter who will sing your praises without so much as a smirk.

Sum: Tales from the Afterlives, the word-of-mouth phenomenon that has already hit the shelves in paperback, is to be released in a variety of exciting formats and experienced in new ways.

Publishers Weekly is the international journal of book publishing and bookselling including business news, reviews, bestseller lists, commentaries and more. It’s now available as an app with Exact Editions.

The New Goodbye is a novel by Neil George Ayres bundled in a multi-arts iPhone app with Cervantes’ Dialogue of the Dogs, illustrations by Johanna Basford and photography by Nicole Heiniger.

The iPad is very sleek and so is Marvel’s app. There’s a great opportunity here to reinvigorate the comic format.

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Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker is the story of 26 stolen letters. The free iPhone sampler app contains the first of the missing letters from the book, as text and synchronised audio.