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Baker & Taylor on the brink (This week in books)

October 10, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down – Jim Milliot, Publishers Weekly | Libraries Look to Fill the Gap Left by Baker & Taylor – Jim Milliot and Nathalie op de Beeck, Publishers Weekly | “Chaos” at B&T as Ingram Adds Staff in Light of Impending Closure – Erin Somers, Publishers […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Baker & Taylor, DongWon Song, Elizabeth A. Harris, Ella Creamer, Emily Temple, Erin Somers, Hannah Jane Parkinson, Jim Milliot, Katy Hershberger, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Nathalie op de Beeck, National Book Awards, Rebecca Ackermann, Ron Charles, Twilight

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

April 18, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

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

Is it time for celebrity kids books to go? (This week in books)

October 25, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Another week, another celebrity children’s book announcement, this time actor Keira Knightley writing a book called I Love You Just the Same for Simon & Schuster UK. Maybe it was the anodyne title, maybe it was a “last straw” that had been building, but for some reason this time around it struck […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Adam Schatz, Alex Barasch, Bang Si-hyuk, Charlotte Levin, Clint Smith, Dan Sinykin, David Barnett, DongWon Song, Ella Creamer, Erin Somers, Evan Friss, Freida McFadden, Genocide, Jessa Crispin, Keira Knightley, Lucy Knight, Ruwaida Kamal Amer, Shardai Smith, Sophie Vershbow, Victoria Strauss

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