Book banners are everywhere. These lawyers are playing offense.
Mark Herron isn't exactly a media lawyer. His specialty is discrimination and employment rights, and most of his cases involve mistreatment in the workplace stemming from gender, race, or disability...
View ArticleTrump sues Penguin Random House, 'New York Times' for $15 billion
President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit in Florida accusing the New York Times and its reporters Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner, Peter Baker, and Michael S. Schmidt, of disparagement. Penguin Random...
View ArticleNew organization hopes to boost book reviews
Former Beacon Press director Helene Atwan and a group of other industry members have formed Viva la Book Review, a new nonprofit organization which hopes to match book reviews—and reviewers—with local...
View ArticleFederal judge tosses Trump's lawsuit against PRH, 'NYT'
A federal judge has thrown out President Donald Trump's $15 billion lawsuit against Penguin Random House and the New York Times, which the President had filed earlier this week on the grounds of...
View ArticleBook industry divided over AI adoption, finds BISG survey
Nearly half of book industry professionals are using artificial intelligence tools for work, but 98% report significant concerns about AI implementation, according to new survey data from the Book...
View ArticleJudge approves $1.5 billion settlement over AI company Anthropic's alleged...
A federal judge on Thursday approved a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to train...
View ArticleJudge gives preliminary approval to Anthropic settlement
Following a September 25 hearing, U.S. District Judge William Alsup gave preliminarily approval to $1.5 billion settlement in the class action lawsuit in which authors charged AI giant Anthropic with...
View ArticleStephen King is the most banned author in US schools, according to report
A new report on book bans in US schools finds Stephen King as the author most likely to be censored and the country divided between states actively restricting works and those attempting to limit or...
View ArticleAmerica's burgeoning fleet of book bikes
The United States is in a literacy crisis. In 2023, a survey conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics found that 28% of American citizens ages 16–65 read below the equivalent of a...
View ArticleU.S. faces 'expanded and escalated' book censorship, PEN America reports
Timed to coincide with the upcoming Banned Books Week and Let Freedom Read Day, October 5–11, PEN America has released its annual report on censorship in public schools. The data further supports the...
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