Apr 21 2020: As small businesses around the country await funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES ) Act, indie publishers and booksellers are having mixed experiences trying to secure this financial lifeline. “Some seem to have sailed through the ...
Apr 21 2020: Attempts to remove books from libraries across the US rose almost a fifth last year, with children’s books featuring LGBTQ characters making up 80% of the most challenged books.
Apr 17 2020: “Just when people need their libraries the most, funding is decreasing.” That’s the urgent warning from American Library Association President Wanda Brown.
Librarians are delivering books; expanding their e-book, audio and movie collections; providing virtual ...
Apr 17 2020: With prisons and jails in lockdown because of the coronavirus, inmates have almost no educational or recreational activities left. This week, PEN America and many justice reform groups and literacy organizations sent an open letter to the CEOs of Aventiv Technologies ...
Apr 15 2020: ReedPop has officially cancelled the 2020 editions of BookExpo, UnBound and BookCon, which were originally scheduled to be held May 27-31 at the Javits Center in New York City and were postponed until July 22-26 because of the Covid-19 crisis. "As the pandemic has ...
Apr 14 2020: Italy is allowing bookshops to reopen along with stationery and children's clothes stores, but the country's wider quarantine and travel restrictions will remain in place until 3rd May.
Italy culture minister Dario Franceschini has welcomed the move also, saying it ...
Apr 13 2020: On April 8, 2020, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 175 scholars, artists, and writers, including Garth Greenwell, Celeste Ng, and Sigrid Nunez. Appointed on the ...
Apr 13 2020: Growing numbers of indie bookstores in the U.S. are turning to GoFundMe to raise funds to pay expenses like payroll, rent, and utilities to stay afloat in the absence of customers this spring. But some bookstores are having problems actually accessing those funds.
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