Sep 04 2024: 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 ...
Sep 04 2024: 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...
Sep 03 2024: 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 ...
Sep 03 2024: 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 ...
Aug 30 2024: 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.
Aug 29 2024: 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 ...
Aug 28 2024: A buy-back scheme for used books has been launched by Bookshop.org, the online retailer launched in 2020 with the view of being an ethical alternative to Amazon.
The scheme, Bookloop by Bookshop.org, allows customers to trade books they own for credit to use on the ...
Aug 28 2024: 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,...
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