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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

The best book covers of 2024 (This week in books)

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This week! Books! TikTok has been a somewhat unlikely boon to the publishing industry via its books-obsessed crowd, nicknamed BookTok, which has propelled authors like Colleen Hoover and Emily Henry to mega-bestsellerdom. So it likely sent a chill through the business that a federal court unanimously upheld a law that requires its parent company, ByteDance, […]

Han Kang wins the Nobel in literature (This week in books)

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This week! Books! I collected a whole load of links over the past few weeks, so many that I am going to revert to providing the links with limited commentary. (Do you actually prefer this approach? Should I do this more? Let me know in the comments!) Han Kang Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature […]

What writers should do when they’ve been scammed (This week in books)

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This week! Books! I’m under the weather with COVID today (careful out there!), so I’ll be listing these links instead of summarizing. But here are some of the best writing and books links I spotted in the past few weeks: The Latest Impersonation Scams – Victoria Strauss, Writer Beware Cheated, Swindled, or Scammed: What’s a […]

Costco largely exits the book business (This week in books)

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This week! Books! I’m going to be going on an early summer hiatus the next few weeks, returning to a normal schedule later in June. There may be a post or two popping up in the interim, but otherwise things will be as quiet around here as a publishing house on a summer Friday afternoon. […]