Electric Literature has now released an iPad edition, ElectricLit FREE, featuring enhanced video playback, a built-in audiobook, live readings by Electric Literature authors, full-colour images, large-screen design and interactive graphics.

Literary magazines have a very interesting place in this collection of stranded dodgems, because they are hedged in by books and magazines and newspapers which are all about to be pitched headlong into a new digital framework.

To my mind, it’s pay what you can, not pay what you want. Change the verb and you change the game. I know the phrase sounds very Soviet, and, significantly, it turns out it’s much harder than you’d think to evaluate for yourself what you can pay.

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.

International PEN campaigns for the right to write and for freedom of expression. Once a year they remember the plight of the persecuted at Free the Word! in London.

Creation of inhouse brands is going to become something that publishers look to as a means of generating greater revenues and controlling valuable ancillary rights.

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.

At the Birmingham Spring Thing festival, Jo Bell and the novelist David Calcutt unveil their brainchild Bugged – a massive and memorable creative happening.

Paper Radio is an audio journal based in Melbourne, Australia. Its takes stories by Australasian writers and raconteurs from the page and make them audible, with custom sound design and illustration.