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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

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

How publishing has changed in the past fifty years (This week in books)

October 6, 2023 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, please stick with me past a housekeeping matter because there’s some analysis about the last fifty years in publishing that I want to make sure you see. Housekeeping: Elon Musk’s ongoing demolition of Twitter reached yet another low this week as he removed headlines from links, further antagonizing anyone running […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Bluesky, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dave Lee, Del Rey, Elon Musk, Ian McEwan, John Steinbeck, Jon Fosse, Threads, Twitter, Wes Anderson

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