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Waterstones and Amazon: Strange bedfellows
May 24th 2012, 3:10 from Print edition
A print bookseller tries to survive in a digital age(1)
Demography: A new science of population
May 17th 2012, 3:05 from Print edition
The digressions of people power(3)
New British fiction: Unhappy in its own way
May 10th 2012, 3:06 from Print edition
A family holiday that turns claustrophobic(0)
The unconscious mind: Hidden depths
Apr 26th 2012, 3:02 from Print edition
New thoughts on how the mind works(12)
E-book publishing: A too-cosy world?
Apr 12th 2012, 3:07 from Print edition
Readers may not be the ultimate winners in an e-book antitrust case(8)
Robot books: Google this
Apr 11th 2012, 6:06 from Johnson
Fake books pretending to be real books are selling on Amazon(25)
Occupy Wall Street and the media: Talking about a revolution
Apr 4th 2012, 3:00 from Print edition
A fascinating and unwieldy movement in search of a narrative(96)
Salesmanship: Ice to the Eskimos
Apr 4th 2012, 3:00 from Print edition
Can the dubious art of selling become more scientific?(4)
American foreign policy: Please don’t go
Mar 22nd 2012, 4:10 from Print edition
A handful of books convey a mix of optimism and fear(95)
Computer passwords: Speak, friend, and enter
Mar 22nd 2012, 4:10 from Print edition
Computer passwords need to be memorable and secure. Most people’s are the first but not the second. Researchers are trying to make it easier for them to be both(66)
Creating economic wealth: The big why
Mar 8th 2012, 4:00 from Print edition
Nations fail because their leaders are greedy, selfish and ignorant of history(24)
Brain scan: Taking the long view
Mar 1st 2012, 4:00 from Print edition
Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, owes much of his success to his ability to look beyond the short-term view of things(17)
Quantum physics: House of dreams
Mar 1st 2012, 4:00 from Print edition
Scientists race to explain why the Higgs boson matters(11)
Shopping and the internet: Making it click
Feb 23rd 2012, 5:07 from Print edition
Retailers are striving to combine the advantages of physical shops with the benefits of online selling(6)
Retailers and the internet: Clicks and bricks
Feb 23rd 2012, 5:07 from Print edition
Many retailers are being too slow in reinventing themselves for the age of online shopping(37)
The first sexual revolution: Pleasure principles
Feb 9th 2012, 4:02 from Print edition
How morality became personal in 18th-century England(48)
New fiction: Books of laughter and forgetting
Feb 9th 2012, 4:02 from Print edition
A funny thing happened on the way to the death camp(0)
Schumpeter: The coming retail boom
Feb 2nd 2012, 4:03 from Print edition
Europe’s dozy retailers are about to be rudely awoken(33)
Entrepreneurs: Headbanging
Jan 12th 2012, 4:04 from Print edition(4)
Books by Economist writers in 2011: Pages and pages
Dec 8th 2011, 4:17 from Print edition
What we wrote when we weren’t in the office(1)
Monitor: And the winners were…
Dec 1st 2011, 4:06 from Print edition
Innovation awards: Our annual prizes recognise successful innovators in eight categories. Here are this year’s winners(0)
The collapse of the Soviet Union: Russia’s imperial agony
Dec 1st 2011, 4:06 from Print edition
The cost of the Soviet collapse has been huge and ongoing(95)
Fiction from Argentina: The price of love
Nov 23rd 2011, 6:02 from Print edition
The junta’s policy of eliminating its enemies still fascinates Argentina’s novelists(2)
Great expectations for Charles Dickens—and Amazon: Great expectations for Charles Dickens—and Amazon
Nov 20th 2011, 4:47 from Cassandra
More of Dickens’s novels will actually be bought and read, bringing to the hip-hop generation wonderful characters such as David Copperfield, the Artful Dodger, Mr Micawber and Miss Havisham(9)
Tablet computers: Fire in the hole!
Nov 17th 2011, 10:07 from Babbage
Amazon's Kindle Fire is no iPad, but it does not need to be(37)