by kmerikallio | Apr 25, 2022 | "In The News"
Publishers Weekly turns 150 this year, a particularly illustrious and rare milestone for any publication, let alone a specialized B2B magazine. In that time, the publishing industry has changed in ways that would have been unimaginable to PW’s founder, Frederick...
by kmerikallio | Apr 14, 2022 | "In The News"
In the wake of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill and a trend toward increased book banning in America, parental rights versus the harm of censorship is once again on the minds of school librarians. Taking a central role in this latest round of the debate is Follet School...
by kmerikallio | Mar 11, 2022 | "In The News"
On February 16, 2022, federal judge Deborah L. Boardman granted the Association of American Publishers’ motion for a preliminary injunction on Maryland’s library e-book law, stopping Maryland officials from enforcing it. Her conclusion comes after the February 7...
by kmerikallio | Mar 10, 2022 | "In The News"
The Frankfurt Book Fair, the largest trade book fair in the world, has decided to suspend their working relationships with institutions of the Russian Federation. In addition to a nearly 500-year-old tradition of international literary history, the Book Fair acts as a...
by kmerikallio | Feb 18, 2022 | "In The News"
Book banning has become a hot button issue recently. The latest high-profile case of book banning in America happened in Tennessee, where the McMinn County Board of Education voted to remove the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus from their eighth-grade...
by kmerikallio | Dec 21, 2021 | "In The News"
Author Anne Rice, best known for her cult-classic 1976 novel, Interview with the Vampire, died on December 11 in California from complications of a stroke. She was 80 years old. Grieving the loss of her five-year-old daughter, Michele, to leukemia in 1972, Rice began...
