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Volodymyr Zelenskyy to speak at Frankfurt Book Fair

Oct 04 2022: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, will speak by video at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 20, at 12:30 p.m. The global publishing community has shown support for Ukrainian, banning Russia from participation in a majority of events around the world.

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Court dismisses 'implausible' price-fixing suits against Amazon, Big Five publishers

Sep 30 2022: A federal judge in New York has officially dismissed price-fixing claims against Amazon and the Big Five publishers following a magistrate judge's finding that the cases lacked sufficient evidence to continue. But in dismissing the suits without prejudice, Judge Gregory...

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Today, the indomitable Ukrainian Library Association celebrate All-Ukrainian Library Day

Sep 30 2022: Today in Moscow, Vladimir Putin is pretending he can annex four chunks of his western neighbor, but nothing can deflate the spirit of All-Ukrainian Library Day. The national holiday on Sept. 30 started in 1998 as a way to celebrate librarians and the crucial role ...

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James Patterson donates $2m to help PEN America raise its reach, voice, and influence

Sep 29 2022: James Patterson, the best-selling author, has donated $2 million to PEN America to build communications capacity and help the premier writers’ organization speak louder in defense of free expression against evolving threats in the United States, online, and around the ...

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Tom Hanks' publisher announces ‘wildly ambitious’ first novel

Sep 28 2022: Oscar winner Tom Hanks’s debut novel has been announced, and is due out next year. The book, Hanks’s second foray into fiction has been described by its publisher as a “wildly ambitious” story about the making of a film.

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They tried to shut down Drag Story Hour. A Montana bookstore fought back

Sep 28 2022: The Guardian explores the phenomena of Drag Queen Story Hour by focusing on an event at a bookstore in Helena, Montana, and then broadening out to look at the wider picture:

The premise of Drag Queen Story Hour is simple: to have drag performers dressed as queens, ...

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Hilary Mantel, prize-winning author of historical fiction, dies at 70

Sep 23 2022: The Booker prize-winning author of the Wolf Hall trilogy, Dame Hilary Mantel, has died aged 70 of a stroke, her publisher HarperCollins has confirmed.

Mantel was regarded as one of the greatest English-language novelists of this century, winning the Booker Prize ...

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How to beat a book ban: students, parents and librarians fight back

Sep 21 2022: The censorship of books in the US has reached crisis level.

More than 2,500 different book bans were enacted in schools across 32 US states during the 2021-2022 school year, according to a new report by Pen America. And attempts to ban books from libraries are on ...

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