Posted on February 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the politics-adjacent bookish news of the past few days.
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Kelly Jensen interviews Kathleen Schmidt of KMS Public Relations about how — not if — tariffs in the US will affect book costs (Book Riot).
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Meanwhile, Indiana has cut Dolly Parton's book-gifting program from its budget; Kelly Jensen notes that the state only covered half of the costs of the Imagination Library last year and that Indiana's share of $2.5 million is relatively small compared to the entire state budget, of $51.3 billion (Book Riot).
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Author Matthew Teller, condemning the Society of Authors for what he saw as a weak response to Israeli police's raid on a Palestinian-owned bookstore in East Jerusalem, has resigned from the group (The Guardian).
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Indian police in the embattled region of Kashmir raided dozens of bookstores and seized more than 650 books, most of them written by the founder of an Islamic organization banned in Kashmir (The Guardian).
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