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State-sponsored censorship week (This week in books)

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This week! Books! I’m back, and luckily nothing at all happened while I was away (okay everything happened while I was away). Lots and lots of links this week! Let’s get to it. 2026 We Need Diverse Books Mentorship Program Application – Applications are now open for We Need Diverse Books’ terrific mentorship program for […]

Bloomsbury on the rise (This week in books)

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This week! Books! Some things are bigger than books and writing, and this feels like one of those weeks. The photos and videos out of the Los Angeles area are lurid and unsettling, no matter your political vantage point, and I guess that’s kind of the point in our eyeballs-are-money-and-power era. Even a mile away […]

Diversity is not a fair-weather pursuit

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Today is Trans Day of Visibility, and Thursday, April 3 marks the inaugural We Need Diverse Books Day. At a time when the mere concept of diversity itself is under assault by the full force of the United States government, now is not the time to get weak-kneed about affirming our values and standing up […]

A Mr. Beast book is coming… (This week in books)

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This week! Books! The wonderful organization We Need Diverse Books is launching the inaugural We Need Diverse Books Day next Thursday, April 3, and they have a range of suggested activities, from posting/sharing diverse books to making a donation to the organization. I’ll be returning to this subject next week, but for reasons that are […]

Has your book been pirated by Meta? (This week in books)

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This week! Books! Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Meta allegedly pirated millions of books to train its A.I. via Library Genesis, or LibGen, a piracy library. The Atlantic created a searchable tool to see if your book(s) are available on LibGen, with the caveat that this means your book could have been used to train A.I. They […]

Is the end near for mass market paperbacks? (This week in books)

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This week! Books! Could the end be near for mass market paperbacks, the small book format that has populated many a supermarket rack over the years? Mass market paperbacks have declined to 3% of all book sales, profit margins were always slim, and distributor Readerlink will stop shipping them at the end of 2025. According […]