Jul 04 2025: A boast by a Reform UK councillor that he ensured the removal of “trans-ideological material and books” from the children’s section of his county’s libraries has fallen flat after it emerged that no such material ever existed there.
Jul 02 2025: Participants at the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in Philadelphia last week sampled the profession’s digital technologies as well as hands-on innovations available in library spaces. From breakout meeting rooms to the Library Marketplace, which this ...
Jun 30 2025: The American Library Association’s 2025 Annual Conference, held in Philadelphia from June 26–30, found attendees simultaneously anxious about the future and in a fighting mood, with multiple presenters describing librarians as the “frontlines” and the “lifelines” of ...
Jun 26 2025: U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria granted summary judgment to Meta in a case brought by 13 authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Sarah Silverman, and Pulitzer Prize winners Junot Díaz and Andrew Sean Greer, who alleged the company illegally used their books to train its...
Jun 24 2025: A Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv on June 17 destroyed a Ukrainian publishing house and damaged several other book-related businesses, the Ukrainian publishing industry news service Chytomo has reported. Ukrainian Priority Publishing was completely destroyed ...
Jun 20 2025: Comics journalist Joe Sacco’s next book, The Once and Future Riot, was supposed to hit bookstore shelves in September, but it’s running about a month late. Publication scheduling delays are neither ideal nor uncommon—but the holdup on Sacco’s latest, which PW’s starred ...
Jun 18 2025: Five years after “retiring” BookCon and BookExpo, ReedPop has announced—to the surprise of many in the book business—that it plans to revive BookCon. The new iteration of the consumer-facing show is slated for April 18-19, 2026, returning to its former home in New York ...
Jun 18 2025: Two lawsuits to prevent the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services have met with mixed results in the courts. However, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office quoted at length from both cases in a new report that finds the gutting of the ...
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