Feb 11 2025: Mahmoud Muna and Ahmad Muna, the co-owners of the Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem who were arrested by Israeli police during a raid of the bookstore on February 9, were released on Tuesday. They are under house arrest for five days, and have been ordered not to ...
Feb 10 2025: Thirty-eight international organizations representing creative industries—including the Association of American Publishers, under the auspices of the International Publishers Association—have released a joint statement calling for oversight and regulation of artificial ...
Feb 10 2025: Israeli police have raided a leading Palestinian-owned bookshop in Jerusalem and detained two of its owners, citing a children’s colouring book as evidence of incitement to terrorism.
Feb 05 2025: A group of major publishers in the US are suing the state of Idaho over a book-banning law.
HB 710, enacted last July, forbids anyone under the age of 18 from accessing books deemed “harmful to minors”, including those depicting “sexual conduct”, in school or public ...
Feb 04 2025: The Giller prize, a prestigious Canadian literary award, has cut ties with a controversial sponsor after more than a year of pushback from the literary community.
Jan 30 2025: The Authors Guild has launched a certification system, “Human Authored,” intended to provide authors and publishers with a way to distinguish their work in an “increasingly AI-saturated market.” The system will provide an official mark on books registered by its author ...
Jan 29 2025: While President Donald J. Trump's executive order to freeze all federal loans, grants, and other financial assistance has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge, libraries, arts agencies, and others are still scrambling for clarity amid potentially devastating cuts...
Jan 29 2025: A stage version of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline has been cancelled after allegations of sexual misconduct against the author.
The musical was to have been staged at Leeds Playhouse from 11 April to 11 May before touring to Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester.
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