As part of its digital policy development process, HI~Arts commissioned SARA LLOYD to revisit her article A Book Publisher's Manfiesto For The Twenty First Century to look at how the digital landscape for publishers, authors and readers has shifted.

In this article, specially commissioned by HI~Arts, copyright specialist with Beachcroft LLP, ROBIN FRY, examines some fundamental issues and implications for copyright in the DE Bill.

IAN STEPHEN reports on the final stages of his story-telling residence in Orkney.

IAN STEPHEN embarks on a storytelling adventure on Orkney.

MORAG MACINNES sat down over lunch with Alistair Peebles and Dr Laura Watts to chew over a new handbook that attempts to imagine futures for Orkney.

BRID McKIBBEN is the new director of the Inverness Book Festival, and reflects on her plans for her first festival since taking over from Jason Rose.

ANDREW MACKAY reports on Highland musician Misha Somerville's trip to Africa and the book he wrote about the highs and lows of travelling through West Africa.

KEN PORTER relates a chance encounter with a Doric poet, and looks into the origins of the word Doric.

DOUG JOHNSTONE on the novels of STONA FITCH, a revolutionary publishing model and the boldness of one Highland publishing house...

BOB PEGG looks back on three decades of involvement in arts in the Highlands & Islands.

SUE WILSON meets the author of the first full-length travelogue of Shetland since the Victorian era.

PAMELA BEASANT reports on a fascinating collaborative project from the Northern Isles

MORAG MACINNES considers the poetic identities revealed in the work of three women poets based in Orkney and Shetland.

RODY GORMAN pays a poetic tribute to the late Simon Mackenzie, actor, writer, theatre director and Gaelic activist.

IAN STEPHEN considers an audio visual performance from Shetland by poet Robert Alan Jamieson as perceived from another island.

GILES SUTHERLAND considers the life of work of Hamish Henderson in the light of a new biography by Timothy Neat.

IAN STEPHEN reports on a gathering of Scottish island writers in Brittany that will have ongoing repercussions.

KAREN EMSLIE considers the work of award-winning Shetland playwright Jacqui Clark.

RODY GORMAN describes his participation in the Poet to Poet project in Israel and Cove Park.