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Book orgs call out HarperCollins silence (This week in books)

April 25, 2025 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! Murdoch-owned publisher HarperCollins was a very notable non-signer of a letter from major publishers speaking out against the Trump administration’s move to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services, an institution that provides crucial support for the nation’s museums and libraries. Advocacy organization Authors Against Book Bans, the HarperCollins union, and […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Censorship, E-Readers, George R.R. Martin, HarperCollins, J.K. Rowling, Ross Anderson

Meta argues pirated books have no economic value (This week in books)

April 18, 2025 by Nathan Bransford 3 Comments

This week! Books! The U.S. Naval Academy’s library has banned books like I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou and The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, while Mein Kampf and white supremacist texts remain on the shelves. I wonder why. Twelve students and the ACLU have sued defense secretary Pete Hegseth […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: ACLU, Alia Hanna Habib, Angie Thomas, Book Banning, Censorship, Charlie Jane Anders, Ella Creamer, Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, Lincoln Michel, Mark Zuckerberg, Maya Angelou, Richard Curtis, Science

Meta: “Censorship for thee and not for me” (This week in books)

March 14, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg went on a conservative apologia tour and, on the Joe Rogan show naturally, declared Facebook’s own fact-checking program like “something out of 1984” and that he worried about Facebook becoming “this sort of decider of what is true in the world.” No longer would Facebook be in […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amazon, Censorship, Drew Broussard, Elon Musk, Facebook, Grimes, Jeanette Winterson, Kat Tenbarge, Lincoln Michel, Matt Bernstein, Middle Grade, OpenAI, Taylor Lorenz, Tin House, Zando

Bookshop.org launches e-books! (This week in books)

January 31, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Some really terrific news for the book world this week as independent online bookseller Bookshop.org has launched its long-awaited e-book platform. You can now buy e-books that support many of your favorite independent bookstores! I gave the app a spin, and it looks great. For now they have traditionally published books, but […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: ALA Awards, Amazon, Audiobooks, Authors Against Book Bans, Authors Guild, Bookshop.org, BookTok, Censorship, DeepSeek, Emily Gould, George R.R. Martin, Kate McKean, Ken Whyte, OpenAI, PEN America, Sean Manning, Simon & Schuster

The book world rallies for Los Angeles (This week in books)

January 24, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! In a week where we have a new president and rich, evil dweebs are out doing Nazi salutes, the fight to ban books continues apace. In Utah, students can no longer even bring their personal copies of banned books to school. The list of banned books includes perennial book ban favorite Ellen […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amanda Palmer, Amazon, Censorship, Climate Change, Ellen Hopkins, Gina Cherelus, Jessa Crispin, Justin Ray, Margaret Atwood, Nathalie op de Beeck, Neil Gaiman, Nikki High, Octavia's Bookshelf, OpenAI, Penguin Random House, Spike Jonze

This Year in Books (2024)

December 20, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This year! Books! If last year’s edition of This Year in Books was characterized by a cloudy crystal ball as we seemed on the precipice of change, 2024 was a year when some of those swirling elements came into focus. And… Not great, Bob! Now, let me be clear: if you zoom out, the publishing […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Andrew Dalton, Angelina King, Barnes & Noble, Censorship, Dan Blank, Emily Gould, Kathleen Schmidt, Matt Dorfman, Nicole Brockbank, Nicole Sperling, Noam Scheiber, publishing industry, Sophia Stewart, Succession

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