Posted on August 10, 2023 at 8:02 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

No part of the US is safe from efforts to put restrictions on literature. Here's what came up in the...

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Posted on August 2, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A judge has granted preliminary injunctions against two parts of Arkansas's new book restriction law, which was set to take...

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Posted on July 18, 2023 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

July's nearly halfway over, so it's well past time to share the bestsellers for the first half of the year....

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Posted on June 12, 2023 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

If you were wondering about the status of a number of lawsuits around reading restrictions, good news: Publishers Weekly is...

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Posted on March 16, 2023 at 9:46 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The library ebook license bills in various state legislatures have sounded great to patrons. But they're not universally embraced, clearly....

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Posted on March 2, 2023 at 3:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Colin Kaepernick’s publishing company and Haymarket Books are jointly producing an essay collection that promises to celebrate the Black radical...

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Posted on March 1, 2023 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Advocates for better ebook-licensing terms for libraries suffered a setback in 2022. But, Publishers Weekly reports, library advocates have learned...

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Posted on February 14, 2023 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

If you're on this blog, chances are that you'd consider reading, books, and/or the library as your first love. We...

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Posted on January 18, 2023 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The records keep coming in from OverDrive. The digital lending platform reported last week that 129 library systems reported breaking...

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Posted on January 12, 2023 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Publishers Weekly has released the top-selling print books of 2022. The big story was Colleen Hoover's continued dominance; she took...

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