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S&S Australia agrees to acquire Affirm Press

Aug 26 2024: Simon & Schuster Australia has acquired Melbourne-based independent publisher Affirm Press for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2010, Affirm has a backlist of approximately 750 titles and publishes about 100 new books annually. Completion of the purchase is subject to ...

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IBPA and EveryLibrary make a play for the freedom to read

Aug 22 2024: The Independent Book Publishers Association and EveryLibrary Institute have teamed up for We Are Stronger Than Censorship, a program to supply diverse books to young readers and counteract book banning efforts. Cocreated by IBPA chief content officer Lee Wind and ...

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Survey finds most Americans unengaged with book banning efforts in public schools

Aug 22 2024: One of the persistent themes to emerge from the ongoing nationwide surge in book banning is that the bans are being pursued by a vocal, politically motivated minority. This week, a new survey report from the Knight Foundation is offering more support for that conclusion...

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The American Booksellers Association is publishing a handbook for fighting book bans

Aug 22 2024: With book bans hitting record highs, the American Booksellers Association is releasing a book to help freedom to read advocates stand up to the challenge. The ABA Right to Read Handbook: Fighting Book Bans and Why It Matters, written by Philomena Polefrone, the ABA’s ...

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Ruth Johnson Colvin, founder of Literary Volunteers of America, is dead at 107

Aug 21 2024: Ruth Johnson Colvin, who founded what became one of the world’s largest organizations of volunteers tutoring basic language skills to functionally illiterate peoples in America and other lands, opening doors to citizenship and better lives, died on Sunday at her home in...

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Authors sue Anthropic for copyright infringement over AI training

Aug 20 2024: The artificial intelligence company Anthropic has been hit with a class-action lawsuit in California federal court by three authors who say it misused their books and hundreds of thousands of others to train its AI-powered chatbot Claude, which generates texts in ...

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Dozens of UK school librarians asked to remove LGBTQ+ books, survey finds

Aug 19 2024: More than two dozen school librarians in the UK have been asked to remove books – many of which are LGBTQ+ titles – from school library shelves, according to new survey data.

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Nearly £250,000 raised for Liverpool library damaged by rioters

Aug 14 2024: A fundraising campaign has raised nearly £250,000 to repair a library in Liverpool that was torched by rioters during unrest earlier this month, with hundreds of authors pledging to donate their books.

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