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Book about book bans banned by Florida school board

Jun 11 2024: A book about book bans has been banned in a Florida school district.

Ban This Book, a children’s book written by Alan Gratz, will no longer be available in the Indian River county school district since the school board voted to remove the book last ...

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Is the New York Times bestseller list politically biased?

Jun 11 2024: The New York Times is pure propaganda,” tweeted Elon Musk, a tech mogul, in March. Mr.Musk was responding not to the newspaper’s coverage of his companies or of Donald Trump, but rather to the newspaper’s latest bestseller list. “Troubled”, a book by Rob Henderson, a ...

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Appeals court tells Texas it cannot ban books for mentioning ‘butt and fart’

Jun 09 2024: An appellate court has ruled that Texas cannot ban books from libraries simply because they mention “butt and fart” and other content which some state officials may dislike.

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English-language books are filling Europe’s bookstores. Mon dieu!

Jun 09 2024: Young people, especially, are choosing to read in English even if it is not their first language because they want the covers, and the titles, to match what they see on TikTok and other social media.

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Publishers sue Google over pirate sites

Jun 06 2024: In publishers' ongoing fight to shutdown pirate sites, Cengage, Elsevier, Macmillan Learning, and McGraw Hill filed a lawsuit on June 5 accusing Google of promoting pirated copies of their textbooks. In the suit, the publishers are seeking unspecified monetary damages ...

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Romance Writers of America files for bankruptcy amid bitter racism battle

May 30 2024: For decades, the Romance Writers of America (RWA) served as a champion for the mostly female authors of one of the country’s most popular – and denigrated – genres of fiction.

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Russian strike on Kharkiv printing house cripples Ukrainian book industry

May 24 2024: The Russian missile strike on Kharkiv's Vivat printing house will significantly impact Ukraine's book publishing industry, reducing its overall capacity by 30-40%, Factor-Druk printing plant owner Serhiy Polituchyi told Radio Liberty on May 24.

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Sights and insights from the 2024 U.S. book show

May 24 2024: The publishing CEOs who joined PW at the U.S. Book Show had a lot to say about artificial intelligence, from a number of perspectives. S&S CEO Jonathan Karp had the most colorful take, rejecting the suggestion that the technology is currently the “elephant in the room” ...

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