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Penguin Random House creates banned books resources hub

Mar 15 2022: Penguin Random House has created a Banned Books Resources Hub that includes tools, materials and information that can help people and organizations fighting book bans including resources for teachers, librarians, parents, students and authors/illustrators.

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Book the Vote: writers, booksellers and libraries collaborate to register voters

Mar 14 2022: Writers for Democratic Action is launching Book the Vote, with the aim of registering more voters, particularly in battleground states, before the November elections. The effort will take place in bookstores and libraries, where nonpartisan voter registration tables ...

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Assistant principal fired for reading children’s book "I Need a New Butt!" to second-graders

Mar 11 2022: When a guest who was scheduled to read to second-graders over Zoom this month didn’t show up, Toby Price, the assistant principal at a Mississippi elementary school, improvised.

Price’s boss at Gary Road Elementary School suggested Price read to the students, so he ...

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Texas Library Association forms coalition to battle book bans

Mar 09 2022: The Texas Library Association has announced the formation of a grassroots coalition, Texans for the Right to Read, to "amplify and unify the voices of librarians, educators, parents, students, authors, and others" who oppose the growing effort to ban books from schools ...

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Any Weir's Project Hail Mary, read by Ray Porter, wins Audiobook of the Year

Mar 04 2022: The Audio Publishers Association (APA) have announced the winners of the 2022 Audie Awards®, the premier awards program recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.

Project Hail Mary, written by Andy Weir, narrated by Ray Porter, and ...

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Amazon to close all bookstores

Mar 03 2022: After opening its first bookstore with much fanfare on November 3, 2015, this week Amazon confirmed a report from Reuters that it is closing all of its physical bookstores, as well as its 4-star and pop-up stores, which carry a mix of items, including some books. All ...

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Russian publishers sign open letter decrying invasion of Ukraine

Mar 02 2022: Over the weekend, several hundred Russian publishing professionals issued a public condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine. Many Russian publishers have also stood together to criticize Putin's horrible war.

The letter reads, in translation:

We, Russian book ...

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Waterstones acquires Blackwell’s, the UK’s biggest independent bookseller

Mar 01 2022: The UK’s largest book chain, Waterstones, has acquired the country’s largest independent bookseller, Blackwell’s, ending 143 years of family ownership and signalling a further concentration of the bookselling industry.

The acquisition by Waterstones will see ...

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