News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff. Bookish News Is the Book Sales Boom Finally Over? Print book sales are down 6.6% in the early part of 2022, compared with 2021’s numbers. Publishers… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff. Bookish News AAP Seeking $300K in Legal Fees After Winning Maryland E-book Case (Publishers Weekly) Macmillan Slowly Bringing [Computer] Systems Back after taking them offline due… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Barnes & Noble Being Sued in Virginia Beach over Gender Queer, A Court of Mist and Fury. (Book Riot) Not content with banning books… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Literary Losses Patricia A. McKillip, World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, the Riddle-Master of Hed trilogy, and more than 15 other books,… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Congress Investigates Book Banning in Schools (Publisher’s Weekly; also House Committee on Oversight and Reform) Banned in the USA: Rising School Book Bans Threaten… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Russia’s War of Words with Ukraine (Publishers Weekly) International publishers’ associations react to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which is likely to impact Ukrainian and… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Court Blocks Maryland’s Library E-book Law, granting a preliminary injunction in response to the Association of American Publishers’ motion. The judge seemed to side… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Tenn. Comic Shop’s Maus Fundraiser Garners $90K (Shelf Awareness) After Hearing, Maryland’s E-book Law Hangs in the Balance (Publishers Weekly). Meanwhile… Tennessee, Missouri Introduce Library E-book… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Maryland Lawyers Say E-book Law Is a Defense of Public Libraries. The American Association of Publishers contends that the Copyright Act preempts the Maryland… Read more »
News & Notes is an occasional Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News 2022 Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, and other ALA award winners (Publishers Weekly; ALA) It was a great year for diverse books and authors. The Newbery… Read more »
