Florida school district must return LGBTQ books to libraries after settlement
A school district in northeastern Florida must return three dozen books related to race and the LGBTQ community to school libraries as part of a settlement reached Thursday with authors, parents and...
View ArticlePercival Everett and Rachel Kushner make the 2024 Booker prize shortlist
Percival Everett, Rachel Kushner and Anne Michaels are among the writers whose novels have been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. The list of six includes five books by female authors, the...
View ArticleSlovakia targets 'wealthy' book buyers with steep VAT rise
Slovakia's populist government has announced plans to drastically raise value-added tax (VAT) on books to help fix its public finances, drawing condemnation not only from booksellers and publishers...
View ArticleUS public schools banned 10,000 books in most recent academic year
More than 10,000 books were banned in US public schools from 2023 to 2024, according to a report, marking a stark increase over the year before as Republican-led states pass new censorship laws. The...
View ArticleALA finds book challenges are slowing in 2024
Is this a sign of progress? With Banned Books Week 2024 underway, the American Library Association released its preliminary data documenting attempts to censor books and materials in public, school,...
View ArticlePEN America finds new state laws are supercharging school book bans
In a report released today, PEN America officials said that the organization has counted more than 10,000 cases of book censorship in public schools during the 2023-2024 school year, nearly triple the...
View ArticleOn appeal, Llano County seeks book ban ruling that would upend public libraries
At an appeal hearing this week in a closely watched book banning case, lawyers for rural Llano County, Tex., told the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that it should strike down a three-decade-old...
View ArticleInternational Publishers call on Frankfurt to cut ties with Israel
Publishers for Palestine, an international coalition of more than 500 publishers, issued an open letter on Tuesday demanding that organizers of the Frankfurt Book Fair cut ties with Israel. In the...
View ArticleMeryl Streep to star in series adaptation of 'The Corrections' from Jonathan...
Meryl Streep could soon have her next major TV role. Variety has confirmed with sources that Streep is attached to star in a series adaptation of the Jonathan Franzen novel "The Corrections."
View Article2024 National Book Award shortlists announced
The National Book Foundation has announced the 2024 National Book Award shortlists. The winners in each of the five categories—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people's...
View ArticleMacmillan launches limited editions brand, Fablelistik editions
Macmillan has announced the launch an operation unique to large publishers, one that it says is dedicated to reinforcing the concept of books as works of art. The Fablelistik Editions brand has been...
View ArticleIn Arkansas, book banners dealt another legal setback
In yet another major win for freedom to read advocates, a federal judge has ordered the Crawford County Public Library in Arkansas to stop segregating books deemed inappropriate by some local...
View ArticleBooksellers step up to help bookstores hit by hurricane Helene
Even as the Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation continues to raise funds to dispense to booksellers in need, other organizations and bookstores in the South are doing what they can to provide...
View ArticleDesert Island Comics launches fundraiser to avoid closure
Desert Island Comics, the Brooklyn, N.Y.–based comics shop specializing in alternative, independent, and underground comics, graphic novels, art books, screenprints, and zines, is reportedly being...
View ArticleSourcebooks is matching gifts to Binc for book & comic people impacted by...
As Hurricane Milton heads toward Florida and recovery efforts continue across six states in the wake of Hurricane Helene, Sourcebooks is matching all gifts made to the Book Industry Charitable...
View ArticleImprisoned British-Egyptian activist named PEN writer of courage 2024
British-Egyptian writer, software developer and activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been named this year's PEN writer of courage. The 42-year-old is still in prison in Egypt, despite having completed his...
View ArticleHan Kang has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024 is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang, "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life". You can...
View ArticleSourcebooks, Cosmopolitan team up for new imprint, Cosmo Reads
Sourcebooks and Hearst have launched Cosmo Reads, a new imprint in collaboration with Cosmopolitan magazine. In a joint release, reps said that the new line will focus on "inclusive romantic and pop...
View ArticleHan Kang's books sell out as South Korea celebrates her Nobel prize in...
Queues of customers spilled out of South Korea's bookshops yesterday and online stores crashed as readers tried to get their hands on the work of the new Nobel prize winner, Han Kang. The country's...
View ArticleWhere manufacturing jobs have shrunk, a library is giving a leg up to...
TOLEDO, Ohio — Marsha Hill feels like she's been coming to the public library for a hundred years. She came with her kids when they were young. Later, she came for computer help. Now at 66, she's...
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