A major Canadian literary award has dropped the name of its sponsor, Scotiabank, from its title following months of protests over the bank's investments in an Israeli weapons manufacturer.
The National Book Foundation is announcing the 2024 National Book Award longlists this week. Five finalists in each of the five categories—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people's literature—will be named October 1. The winners will be announced during an awards...
Diana Baroni, formerly SVP, editor-in-chief, and publisher of Harmony Books and Rodale Books at Penguin Random House, is joining HarperCollins on October 7 as SVP and publisher for Harvest and Harper Wave. Both imprints focus on the lifestyle and wellness categories. As a result, Harper Wave will...
In a swift decision, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously affirmed a March 2023 lower court decision finding the Internet Archive's program to scan and lend print library books is copyright infringement. In an emphatic 64-page decision, released on...
Little Free Library, the St. Paul, Minn.–based nonprofit organization, has partnered with the American Library Association and PEN America to produce an interactive map in response to the nationwide surge in efforts to ban books from public and school libraries. The map includes two key features:...
In a 23-page decision dated August 27, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman—the same judge who, in March 2023, ordered several books banned by Llano County officials returned to library shelves—denied most of the Texas county's motion to dismiss librarian Suzette Baker's wrongful termination...
Lerner Publishing Group has acquired the supplemental literacy solutions company Sundance Newbridge Publishing from Globe Pequot Publishing. The purchase adds more than 3,600 fiction and nonfiction titles to the Lerner pre-K–8 catalog, along with new books and educational kits planned for future...
Six major book publishers have teamed up to sue the US state of Florida over an "unconstitutional" law that has seen hundreds of titles purged from school libraries following rightwing challenges.
In what may be turn out to be one of most consequential lawsuits yet filed in defense of the freedom to read, six major publishers, the Authors Guild, and several bestselling authors have teamed up with students and parents in Florida to file a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of...
The two veterans of Hong Kong's long boisterous news media scene didn't shy away from publishing pro-democracy voices on their Stand News site, even as China cranked up its national security clampdown to silence critics in the city. Then the police came knocking and, more than two and a...