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Never having written before, Anna Todd is today the breakout Simon & Schuster author whose “After” series of One Direction fan fiction is the best argument yet for digital’s drive toward writing and reading community — and for the massive platform leading the way: Wattpad.

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At BookExpo America, London publisher Michael Bhaskar tells IDPF’s Digital Book Conference that a new power broker is afoot: the reader-as-curator now is top priority in an industry deep in transition.

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In the run-up to the London Book Fair, Monday’s Publishing for Digital Minds conference at Olympia London is the first of the year’s trade-show-opening publishing conferences.

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Having heard an earful from self-publishing authors for years, the books industry may get some new insights into how traditionally publishing authors see their experiences. A new international survey is open for input.

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One of the most compelling debuts in recent years, Josh Malerman’s ‘Bird Box’ is honored by an international online center for horror, This Is Horror.

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If you’ve never thought it was important to honor the writers of posts and stories in your tweets and other social media, meet Narrative Science, which uses data to generate mighty-fine sounding articles and news. Do the right thing: #CreditWriters.

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As publishing and its authors struggle to reach the right readers under a mountain of digitally triggered content, a young company in Boston — Trajectory — may be powering up the algorithms of true book “discoverability.”

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As Big Five publishers work to cultivate new relationships directly with readers, HarperCollins’ Angela Tribelli discusses its once-and-future curated pop-up store: it disappears on New Year’s Eve.

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With Digital Book World’s (DBW) crowded keynote schedule kicking off 2015’s publishing industry conferences, technologist and writer Baldur Bjarnason likens these major events to ecclesiastical rituals. Grab a hymnal.

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As Vancouver-based publishing start-up BitLit amasses tens of thousands of “shelfies” from readers, it’s starting to draw early profiles of what’s on those bookshelves — so publishers can offer ebooks to bundle with fans’ print copies.