Big Year for Book Bans
ALA and PEN say most “book challenges” in 2022 involve LGBTQ+ authors and themes, or issues of race and social justice.
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ALA and PEN say most “book challenges” in 2022 involve LGBTQ+ authors and themes, or issues of race and social justice.
What creators, performers, and rights owners should know when it comes to developing content for audiobooks and podcasts.
The union action has received support from Harper authors and from the stage at the recent National Book Awards.
The university library holds first a central role as a study space. With enrollment increasingly diverse, librarians and administrators see responsibility for making that study space into a welcoming place, too.
In the US election this month, books bans and public school teaching restrictions remained hot button issues, according to Andrew Albanese, Publishers Weekly senior writer.
For a close reading of Judge Florence Pan’s ruling to block Penguin Random House’s proposed acquisition of Simon & Schuster, CCC’s Chris Kenneally spoke with Michael Cader of Publishers Lunch.
With one especially dominant firm in the market, there would be fewer bidders for book rights with negative impact on negotiations for those rights.
The trick to making ebooks accessible and even beautiful is to think of them as software, says Jens Tröger, Bookalope founder.
Upon review of the extensive record and careful consideration of the parties’ arguments’, the government successfully showed that the effect of the proposed merger, ‘may be to substantially to lessen competition’ in the market for the U.S.