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Cultural organizations protest Trump efforts to confine speech for federal grantees

Feb 27 2025: Seven free speech organizations—led by the National Coalition Against Censorship and including AICA International, Artists at Risk Connection, the Authors Guild, Dramatists Guild of America, Dramatists Legal Defense Fund, and PEN America—issued a statement this week ...

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PEN America report zooms in on school year 2023–2024 book bans

Feb 27 2025: In a new report out today called “Cover to Cover,” PEN America provides a comprehensive analysis of the 4,128 unique titles that it determined were removed from public schools nationwide during the 2023–2024 academic year—the result of more than 10,000 instances of ...

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All 13 writers on International Booker longlist are first-time nominees

Feb 25 2025: The 2025 list features the highest-ever number of independent publishers, with 12 of 13 titles coming from indie presses.

Though the most recent Nobel prize in literature winner Han Kang was eligible for this year’s prize with her book We Do Not Part, translated from...

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New bills in Iowa threaten to tighten obscenity provisions for libraries

Feb 24 2025: Two pieces of state legislation recently introduced in Iowa challenge the state’s obscenity code related to libraries and schools and threaten libraries with civil action related to allegedly obscene materials. House File 274 would repeal a section of the Iowa Code that...

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Readerlink will stop distributing mass market paperbacks at the end of 2025

Feb 24 2025: Sales of mass market paperbacks have steadily declined in recent years, to the point where they accounted for only about 3% of units sold at retailers that report to Circana BookScan in 2024. The format will take another big blow at the end of 2025, when Readerlink will...

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World of Books plans aggressive U.S. expansion

Feb 21 2025: World of Books, a major U.K.–based e-tailer of new and used books, is planning an aggressive expansion of its U.S. business in 2025.

The company, which recently purchased U.S.–based websites SecondSale.com and SellBackYourBooks.com and runs sales on Amazon ...

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Hundreds of books seized from stores in Kashmir as Indian police crack down on dissent

Feb 19 2025: Police in Kashmir have raided dozens of bookstores and seized more than 650 books as part of crackdowns on dissent in the Indian-administered region.

Most of the titles were written by Abul A’la Maududi, a prominent 20th-century Islamic scholar who founded Jamaat-e-...

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Eight independent publishers form cooperative to share resources, cut costs

Feb 17 2025: A group of independent publishers has formally incorporated as the Publishers Cooperative, a new organization aimed at leveraging collective buying power and sharing resources. The cooperative, which received its articles of incorporation this year, is currently seeking...

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