Lynne Reid Banks, author of 'The Indian in the Cupboard,' dies at 94
Lynne Reid Banks, a versatile British author who began her writing career with the best-selling feminist novel "The L-Shaped Room" but found her biggest success with the popular children's book "The...
View ArticleALA releases top 10 most challenged books of 2023
The American Library Association condemns censorship and works to defend each person's right to read under the First Amendment and to ensure free access to information. Every year, ALA's Office for...
View ArticleKnopf to publish memoir by Alexei Navalny
Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his poisoning in 2020 and completed it just before his death in 2024. The book recounts the story of his life, including his youth, marriage, activism,...
View ArticleFive more publishers join suit against Iowa's book banning, anti-GLBQT law
Five publishers have joined the lawsuit filed last November 30 against Iowa over its book banning and anti-GLBQT law, meaning that plaintiffs now include all the Big Five U.S. publishers. The Iowa law...
View ArticlePEN America cancels 2024 literary awards ceremony
PEN America has canceled its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony, which was previously scheduled to be held at the Town Hall in New York City on April 29, although some awards will still be conferred. The...
View ArticleInternational Update: EIBF, IPA protest new Hong Kong security law
Following the adoption of the new Hong Kong Security Law on March 19, the European & International Booksellers Federation and the International Publishers Association expressed concerns about the...
View ArticleChildren's Publishers embrace the Taylor Swift factor
Even casual observers of popular culture know all too well that Taylor Swift has reached new heights of icon status in the past year. The singer-songwriter's influence can be seen everywhere from the...
View ArticlePoetry Foundation offers aid to SPD presses as the search for new homes...
With little hope that the leadership of Small Press Distribution will emerge to help sort through the chaos caused by their abrupt closing at the end of March, other organizations have begun stepping...
View ArticlePaul Auster dies at 77
Paul Auster, the prolific novelist, memoirist and screenwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s with his postmodern reanimation of the noir novel and who endured to become one of the signature New York...
View ArticlePEN America cancels 2024 world voices festival amid further fallout
Less than a week after canceling its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony following months of steadily mounting criticism over the organization's response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, PEN America has...
View ArticleMore than a quarter of readers of YA are over the age of 28 research shows
Report commissioned by HarperCollins shows that uptake in YA fiction in older readers is due to behavioural changes described as 'emerging adulthood' or delaying 'adult' life. Young adult fiction such...
View ArticleABA files motion to intervene in FTC suit against Amazon
The American Booksellers Association has filed a motion to intervene in the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust suit against Amazon, a move that the association said supports the FTC's case and...
View ArticleIBPA rebrands annual book award, adds DEI categories
At Publishing University 2024, held in Denver, the Independent Book Publishers Association announced that the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Book Awards, which honor titles in 57 categories, will be renamed...
View ArticleC.J. Sansom passes away at 71
British author Christopher John Sansom, author of the Shardlake series of crime novels under the pen name C.J. Sansom, died April 27, the Bookseller reported. He was 71. Sansom was awarded the Crime...
View ArticleInnovators share 'disruptive' ideas at PubU 2024
At the Independent Book Publishers Association's Publishing University 2024 in Denver, whose theme was "Rise and Disrupt!," an April 27 roundtable addressed alternatives—or creative tweaks—to...
View Article2024 Pulitzer Prize Winners announced
The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday by the Pulitzer Prize Board. To see and read more about the winners, please visit our awards page.
View ArticleACLS announces 2024 Open Access Book Award winners
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) this week announced the winners of the inaugural 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards. In the history category,...
View ArticleSimon & Schuster buys Dutch publisher VBK
Simon & Schuster has bought VBK (Veen Bosch & Keuning), the largest publisher of adult and children's general-interest books in the Netherlands. The move marks S&S's first ownership of a...
View ArticlePromotions and structural changes at Hachette Book Group, Hachette UK
Hachette Book Group and Hachette UK have made promotions and structural changes designed "to meet consumer needs in all formats and fuel Hachette's growth in the U.K., the U.S., and international...
View ArticleAmerica's unseen book bans: the long history of censorship in prisons
Tens of thousands of books are banned in US prisons, in an often arbitrary process that limits education opportunities. On a Monday night, just after six, Alicia Williams waits for the last stragglers...
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