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Writers orgs form #DisneyMustPay joint task force

Apr 29 2021: Half a dozen professional writers’ organizations have joined with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in forming a joint task to press the Walt Disney Company to ensure it pays all royalties owed to authors. The task force, #DisneyMustPay, contends that ...

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Norton halts publication of two books by Blake Bailey

Apr 28 2021: Following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct leveled at the author, W.W. Norton announced that it will cease publication of the newly released edition of Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth: The Biography, as well as Bailey’s 2014 memoir The Splendid Things We Planned, ...

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New blog from the Library of Congress

Apr 27 2021: The Library of Congress has launched a new blog: Guardians of Memory: Preserving the National Collection.

"Today we are launching a new blog covering preservation at the Library of Congress: Guardians of Memory: Preserving the National Collection, ISSN 2767-7524. You...

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Publishing industry sales up 16% through February

Apr 27 2021: Figures from AAP’s StatShot program indicate that the book buying sales increase of 2020 has carried into the early months of 2021. According to the 1,359 publishers who submit sales to AAP, revenue rose 16.4% in the first two months of 2021 over the comparable period ...

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Thousands of supporters join staff at Mike Pence’s publisher in campaign against book deal

Apr 27 2021: More than 200 members of staff at Simon & Schuster have signed a petition calling for the publishing house to cancel its seven-figure book deal with former vice-president Mike Pence and commit to not signing any more book deals with members of Donald Trump’s ...

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Revealed: Lord Byron’s £4,000 check that helped create modern Greece

Apr 25 2021: Racked by fever, prone to fits of delirium, consumed by his last great passion – the liberation of Greece – Lord Byron lay on his sickbed. It was 18 April 1824. The great Romantic poet would be dead the next day.

“I have given her [Greece] my time, my means, my ...

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Sexual assault allegations against biographer halt shipping of his Roth book

Apr 21 2021: Earlier this month, the biographer Blake Bailey was approaching what seemed like the apex of his literary career. Reviews of his highly anticipated Philip Roth biography appeared before the book came out, with major stories in magazines and literary publications. It ...

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Children's author Constance C. Greene dies aged 96

Apr 16 2021: Constance C. Greene, the prolific author of children's books, died on April 7. She was 96. Among her many books, she is best known for A Girl Called Al, an ALA Notable Book that reviewers called "a warm, funny, utterly real" story about the friendship between two girls...

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