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Book bans live on in school district now run by democrats

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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Publishers sign petition condemning ‘theft’ by AI companies

Oct 23 2024: An online petition and statement condemning the unauthorized use of creative works to train generative AI has reached 13,500 signatories, including novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, Saturday Night Live actor (and upcoming National Book Awards host) Kate McKinnon, musician Thom ...

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Texas condemned for placing book on colonization in library’s fiction section

Oct 21 2024: Anti-censorship advocates have joined book publisher Penguin Random House in condemning a Texas county that reclassified an account of European settlers’ colonization of Indigenous Americans as fiction.

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The University of Cincinnati Press to shut down operations

Oct 18 2024: The University of Cincinnati announced on Thursday that the University of Cincinnati Press will shut down on June 25. In a release, the university said that it had "determined that the long-term financial sustainment of the University of Cincinnati Press is not feasible...

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Pope Francis to publish Hope, the first memoir from a sitting pontiff

Oct 16 2024: Pope Francis has written an autobiography, publisher Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced. Hope, which will be published globally in January next year, is the first such book written by a sitting pope.

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Court orders review of gender queer book’s classification after challenge by Australian rightwing activist

Oct 14 2024: The Australian classifications review board has been ordered to review its assessment of the book Gender Queer, after the federal court found the board had ignored, overlooked or misunderstood public submissions for it to be censored.

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Han Kang’s books sell out as South Korea celebrates her Nobel prize in literature

Oct 11 2024: Queues of customers spilled out of South Korea’s bookshops yesterday and online stores crashed as readers tried to get their hands on the work of the new Nobel prize winner, Han Kang.

The country’s largest book chain, Kyobo Book Centre, said sales of Han’s books ...

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Sourcebooks, Cosmopolitan team up for new imprint, Cosmo Reads

Oct 11 2024: Sourcebooks and Hearst have launched Cosmo Reads, a new imprint in collaboration with Cosmopolitan magazine. In a joint release, reps said that the new line will focus on “inclusive romantic and pop fiction” and aim to publish four to six titles per year.

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