Nov 07 2024: In a letter to American Booksellers Association membership accompanying the publication of Wednesday's Bookselling This Week newsletter, ABA CEO Allison Hill provided cautious words of encouragement following Tuesday's election results. Acknowledging that the ABA does ...
Nov 06 2024: The last few years have been difficult for libraries and librarians, amid a surge in politically motivated book bans and legislative attacks on libraries and library workers. And with last night’s election results, the future for libraries just got a lot murkier, ...
Nov 04 2024: A major Dutch publisher plans to trial translating books into English using artificial intelligence.
Veen Bosch & Keuning (VBK) – the largest publisher in the Netherlands, acquired by Simon & Schuster earlier this year – is “using AI to assist in the translation of a...
Nov 04 2024: After a favorable legal ruling in August, freedom to read advocates in Alaska have scored a significant victory in court over would-be book banners. In an October 31 filing, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District in Alaska agreed to pay $89,000 to settle claims ...
Nov 01 2024: PEN America has released its most recent report documenting public school book bans for the full 2023-2024 school year, finding 10,046 bans nationwide—a more than 200% rise over the previous school year. The report, Banned in the USA: Beyond the Shelves, confirms and ...
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Oct 30 2024: More than 1,000 figures from the literary and entertainment industry – including several Nobel laureates, Pulitzer prize, and Booker prize winners – have signed an open letter against “illiberal and dangerous” cultural boycotts.
The letter was released by the ...
Oct 27 2024: For two years, the Republican Pennridge School Board, north of Philadelphia, governed with a burst of ideological energy. It instituted book bans and curriculum rewrites — the sort of politics pushed nationwide by Moms for Liberty, the conservative advocacy group allied...
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