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COVID-19 causes more cancellations of book events

Mar 11 2020: Shelf Awareness catalogs the growing list of cancellations and postponements of book related events including the Tucson Festival of Books, The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the National Book Critics Circle award ceremony, the Virginia Festival of Books, plus a ...

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Barbara Neely, creator of black female sleuth series, dies

Mar 10 2020: Award-winning mystery writer Barbara Neely, who created the first black female sleuth series in mainstream American publishing, died March 2 after a brief illness. She was 78.

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Hachette cancels publication of Woody Allen memoir after staff stage a walkout

Mar 05 2020: Dozens of Hachette employees staged a walkout of its New York City offices on Thursday in protest against the company’s decision to publish Woody Allen’s autobiography.

Grand Central, a Hachette imprint, announced this week it would publish the Hollywood director’s ...

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ViacomCBS Is looking to sell Simon & Schuster

Mar 04 2020: Nearly three months to the day after the completion of the ViacomCBS merger, the mass media company has indicated its intentions to possibly sell Simon & Schuster, one of the U.S.'s Big Five publishers.

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International book fairs impacted by COVID-19 coronavirus

Mar 02 2020: Although the London Book Fair says it will take place next week, since Friday, the U.S. operations of Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Hachette and Ingram have indicated that they won't attend this year. In addition, some parts of Penguin Random House U.S. ...

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Tennessee becomes next state seeking public library oversight, censorship

Feb 29 2020: Following in the footsteps of Republican lawmakers in Missouri, a pair of bills aimed at public libraries are making their way through both the House and the Senate of Tennessee. Senate Bill 2896, sponsored by Senator Paul Bailey (R-Sparta), and House Bill 2721, ...

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Clive Cussler dies aged 88

Feb 26 2020: Clive Cussler, the US author of the popular Dirk Pitt novels, has died at the age of 88. He wrote 25 books in the adventure series and sold more than 100 million copies of his novels in total.

Writing on Twitter, Cussler's wife said: "It is with a heavy heart that I ...

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China sentences Swedish bookseller to 10 years in prison

Feb 26 2020: A court in eastern China has sentenced a Swedish bookseller who took a skeptical look at the ruling Communist Party to 10 years in prison for “illegally providing intelligence overseas,” in a further sign of Beijing’s hard line toward its critics.

Gui Minhai first ...

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