Carla Hayden to speak at 2025 ALA conference
The American Library Association has announced that Carla Hayden, who was fired from her job as the Librarian of Congress by the Trump administration May 8, will participate in a one-on-one...
View ArticleBookCon will return in 2026
Five years after "retiring" BookCon and BookExpo, ReedPop has announced—to the surprise of many in the book business—that it plans to revive BookCon. The new iteration of the consumer-facing show is...
View ArticleResults vary in legal efforts to restore IMLS
Two lawsuits to prevent the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services have met with mixed results in the courts. However, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office quoted at...
View ArticleThe politics of printing in China
Comics journalist Joe Sacco's next book, The Once and Future Riot, was supposed to hit bookstore shelves in September, but it's running about a month late. Publication scheduling delays are neither...
View ArticleRussia destroys publishing house in Kyiv following book festival
A Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv on June 17 destroyed a Ukrainian publishing house and damaged several other book-related businesses, the Ukrainian publishing industry news service Chytomo...
View ArticleMeta wins AI copyright case, but judge writes roadmap for authors' revenge
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria granted summary judgment to Meta in a case brought by 13 authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Sarah Silverman, and Pulitzer Prize winners Junot Díaz and Andrew Sean...
View ArticleALA 2025: librarians chart a course for the future amid 'existential threat'
The American Library Association's 2025 Annual Conference, held in Philadelphia from June 26–30, found attendees simultaneously anxious about the future and in a fighting mood, with multiple...
View ArticleALA 2025: AI tech, DIY zines capture librarians' attention
Participants at the American Library Association's Annual Conference in Philadelphia last week sampled the profession's digital technologies as well as hands-on innovations available in library...
View ArticleReform councillor's boast about removing 'trans-ideological' books from...
A boast by a Reform UK councillor that he ensured the removal of "trans-ideological material and books" from the children's section of his county's libraries has fallen flat after it emerged that no...
View ArticleAI translation service launched for fiction writers and publishers prompts...
An AI fiction translation service aimed at both traditional publishers and self-published authors has been launched in the UK. GlobeScribe.ai is currently charging $100 per book, per language for use...
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