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Stephen King is the most banned author in US schools, according to report

Oct 02 2025: A new report on book bans in US schools finds Stephen King as the author most likely to be censored and the country divided between states actively restricting works and those attempting to limit or eliminate bans.

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PEN America published their annual Banned Books report

Oct 01 2025: Interesting reading:

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U.S. faces ‘expanded and escalated’ book censorship, PEN America reports

Oct 01 2025: Timed to coincide with the upcoming Banned Books Week and Let Freedom Read Day, October 5–11, PEN America has released its annual report on censorship in public schools. The data further supports the concern, expressed across the book industry and in PW's Freedom to ...

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Judge gives preliminary approval to Anthropic settlement

Sep 26 2025: Following a September 25 hearing, U.S. District Judge William Alsup gave preliminarily approval to $1.5 billion settlement in the class action lawsuit in which authors charged AI giant Anthropic with copyright infringement for using pirated books to train its large ...

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Judge approves $1.5 billion settlement over AI company Anthropic's alleged use of pirated books

Sep 25 2025: A federal judge on Thursday approved a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to train chatbots.

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2025 Booker Shortlist announced

Sep 23 2025: Here’s the list: Flashlight by Susan Choi The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai Audition by Katie Kitamura The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller Flesh by David S…

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Book industry divided over AI adoption, finds BISG survey

Sep 23 2025: Nearly half of book industry professionals are using artificial intelligence tools for work, but 98% report significant concerns about AI implementation, according to new survey data from the Book Industry Study Group released in September.

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Federal judge tosses Trump’s lawsuit against PRH, ‘NYT’

Sep 19 2025: A federal judge has thrown out President Donald Trump’s $15 billion lawsuit against Penguin Random House and the New York Times, which the President had filed earlier this week on the grounds of defamation, calling it “improper and impermissible in its present form.”

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