Culture and Politics

A new organization run by and for disabled publishing professionals is set to launch on July 22 at 8 PM Eastern with a virtual town hall.

The law grants protection to freelancers of all kinds who work in New York or work with entities based in New York.

The case was brought by a Virginia politician running for Congress, Tommy Altman, and he isn’t interested in school library removal alone.

Changes in the number and nature of book bans require book-loving community members to push back against bans at a local level.

In response to book-banning efforts around the country, The Authors Guild is now offering a Banned Book Club with monthly picks.

Two Senators have introduced the SMART Copyright Act to “hold tech accountable by developing effective, widely available measures to combat copyright theft.”

Lauren Hough, the author of Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing, recently lost her book’s nomination for the Lambda Prize.

Helmed by a team of refugees and immigrants, The Other Side of Hope aims to challenge common perceptions of refugees.

Last week, Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster filed a response to the US Department of Justice’s antitrust suit,

Former president Donald J. Trump has not yet signed a deal for his memoirs, but there are increasing indicators and speculation he will strike a deal with a company outside of the Big Five.

Brechner says the ABA’s policies are shifting away from defending publishers against calls for censorship that affect not only booksellers but also schools.

In September, Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote to Amazon about the role of its algorithm in promoting vaccine misinformation.

In the UK, publishers are making a firm commitment to improvement—and not just in gender inclusion in the upper echelons.

Kate Clanchy’s memoir, Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, which is about the author’s teaching experience in UK state schools,

In July, the American Booksellers Association made two organizational missteps that it profusely apologized for: it used the wrong cover when featuring a book on its bestseller list.

Last year in June 2020, the Authors Guild hosted a panel with Black voices in publishing to discuss the challenges they’ve faced in the industry for many decades now.

We need a multi-prong attack to not only recover our stolen funds but also stop the continuation of Audible’s monopolistic abuse of authors, narrators, and readers.”

Published in 2015, Arms and the Dudes by journalist Guy Lawson is a nonfiction book about how three stoners from Miami Beach became the most unlikely gunrunners in history

After a year of investigation, the US House Judiciary committee has introduced multiple bills that would potentially break up tech giants Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.

Publisher and author trade associations in UK are raising alarm over potential effects of Brexit on book market due to “copyright exhaustion.”

Last year was the biggest year for political book sales since BookScan began tracking the category in 2004, in no small part due to the Trump administration

Media outlets continue to report on tensions surrounding the book deal that Simon & Schuster struck with Mike Pence in March.

The $8.45 billion acquisition includes a catalog of 17,000 TV shows and 4,000 films.

That’s the question that petitioning employees have asked in a follow-up letter to Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp.

The 21st Century Federal Writers’ Project Act, sponsored by Democratic representatives Ted W. Lieu and Teresa Leger Fernández, would create a new grant program administered by the Department of Labor