Madonna's heart is in the UK

Madonna plans to move back to the UK.

The Celebration singer - who moved back to her native US following her divorce from British film director Guy Ritchie in 2008 - plans to head back to Britain because she "feels her heart is" in the country, but she will have to apply to move back as she is no longer married to a UK citizen.

"Madonna has loved being back in the States since the divorce but England is where she feels her heart is now," a source said.

"She is deliberately focusing on work that will keep her in Britain.

"She has had meetings with her London legal team, Mischon de Reya, to arrange a visa that will enable her to move back for good. Now that she is no longer a British citizen by virtue of being married to Guy, she is having to apply like everyone else."

Madonna's eldest son Rocco, 10, is able to stay in Britain because he is Guy's son, but her other children - Lourdes, 13 and adopted kids David Banda, five and Mercy James, four - will need their mother to complete her visa application before they can live in the UK.

"The other children will automatically gain visas as Madonna's dependents as long as she can get past the paperwork," the source told the Daily Mail newspaper.

"The past couple of years have been the breath of fresh air Madonna needed after her divorce, but she is now ready to embrace the British lifestyle again."

Madonna is not the only star to be planning on a move to England - Lady Gaga is also said to be keen to uproot her life to the UK and purchase a castle in the country.

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Books: final chapter yet to be written

Printed works aren't about to be killed off by digital readers just yet, says global publishing expert

The reassuring news about printed books - for those who devour them - is they are not ready to surrender to the digital tide.

That's the perspective of a book lover who reads ebooks and who sits at the top of the world's publishing industry.

Jens Bammel, a German lawyer and secretary general of the International Publishing Association, watches the business of books from Geneva. He likens its condition to surfing an avalanche, given that the irresistible momentum of digital publishing is sweeping all before it.

In areas like trade publishing and highbrow scholarly works, the revolution is complete. Articles go directly online and users subscribe to a database.

The digital market for mainstream fiction, paperbacks and self-help works is big and getting bigger. Erotic titles are popular too. Bammel thinks the attraction might be that "no one sees what you're reading on screen when you're on the tube."

A standout space in bookshops, much to the delight of an industry under pressure, remains filled with cookbooks.

It's the same in Britain, where Jamie Oliver sells titles by the trolleyload, or New Zealand, where self-published Annabel Langbein had two titles in the top 10 last year.

"With cookbooks you are buying something that you can't replicate on a screen," says Bammel.

But publishing cannot survive forever on titles churned out by celebrity cooks. The industry remains under siege on several fronts, nervously watching the next move of Amazon.com and Apple, which typically has a dazzling new piece of technology called iBooks Author - now the target of much online heat.

Author Jonathan Franzen thinks ebooks are fouling the shelves of printed works. The bestselling novelist fears that as "a literature crazed person" the prospect of bound books giving way to letters on a screen means "it's going to be very hard to make the world work if there's no permanence like [the printed book]."

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