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Circana Bookscan: “Book Sales 2024 Results: A Year of Fantasy, Thriller, and Romance. Data and Highlights” (Top Selling Books 2024)
From Circana: It was a positive year for the U.S. print book market, with annual unit sales growing 1% in 2024. This marked a return to growth for the book market following two years of consecutive declines. Adult fiction drove the gains led by fantasy, thrillers, and romance. In the adult print market, fiction print […]
New Orleans Public Library is Now Fine Free; Dav Pilkey, Scholastic, and Little Free Libraries Launch New Initiative; & More Headlines
Little Free Libraries Dav Pilkey, Scholastic, and Little Free Libraries Launch New Initiative Louisiana New Orleans Public Library is Now Fine Free (via NOPL) Open Book Collective Collective Development Fund Grant Programme: Scoping Update (via Open Book Collective) Scholarly Communications Scientific Journals Are Publishing Papers with AI-Generated Text (via 404 Media) Standards W3C Adopts New […]
OverDrive Users Borrowed 662 Million Ebooks, Audiobooks and Digital Magazines During 2023; 19% Increase Over 2022
From OverDrive: Librarians and educators achieved new milestones in 2023 by providing increasingly robust streaming options to satisfy the interests of all ages and audiences. Readers worldwide borrowed 662 million ebooks, audiobooks and digital magazines, a 19 percent increase over 2022. This growth was driven by a regular cadence of new release blockbuster titles, as […]
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Springer Nature Acquires Slimmer AI’s Science Division; COAR’s Response to the American Chemical Society’s New Fee for Repository Deposit; & More News Headlines
COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) COAR’s Response to the American Chemical Society’s New Fee for Repository Deposit Germany New Data: German Library Association Publishes ‘Libraries In Germany 2023’ Open Science Science 2.0: Towards a Truly Collaborative Research Ecosystem (via PLOS Biology) Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Senate Passes ‘Explicit Content’ Legislation After Heated Debate Over Whether It’s […]
PEN America Urges Scholastic to Find Other Options Instead of Limiting Diverse Book Titles at School Fairs; Complete Issue of FLA Journal (49.3; October 2023) Now Available Online; & More News Headlines
AI Baidu Says Its AI as Good as ChatGPT in Big Claim for China (Bloomberg (via Yahoo News) American Library Association Rachel Hendrick Named CHOICE Editor And Publisher Book Bans U.S. Book Bans Are Taking a Toll on a Beloved Tradition: Scholastic Book Fairs (via NPR) International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Complete […]
Register to Attend the Delta Think Open Access Market Sizing Webinar (Wednesday, October 23, 2023); Now Open: Call for Proposals For 46th Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Annual Meeting; & More News Headlines
Book Fairs NY Times: “For Book Fairs, Scholastic Will Separate Titles That Deal With Race and Gender” ||| Additional Coverage From The Daily Beast California California State Library to Award $172 Million In Additional Facilities Improvement Grants For Local Libraries (via State Library of California) Delta Think Register to Attend the Delta Think Market Sizing Webinar […]
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PEN America, ALA, Children’s Book Council, Leading Publishers, Teacher Groups, and Other Organizations Launch Letter-Writing Campaign to Oppose Censorship
Here’s the Full Text of a Release From PEN America: For Banned Books Week 2023, PEN America and We Believe gathered a consortium of the nation’s leading publishers, teacher and librarian groups, and nonprofit organizations to rally behind the freedom to read by signing a joint open letter and launching a public letter-writing campaign opposing book bans. The […]
Books For All: The New York Public Library Partners with Publishers to Provide Unlimited National Access to a Selection of Commonly Banned Books
From The New York Public Library: The New York Public Library has partnered with publishers Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, and Scholastic to offer a selection of commonly banned books to anyone in the country via its free e-reading app SimplyE. The e-books will be available beginning today through the end of May with no […]
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ALA Announces Winners of 2022 Youth Media Awards (Complete List)
Note: The list of winners is available as a PDF. Note: A video recording of the announcement event is available (also embedded below). From ALA: The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the top books, digital media, video and audio books for children and young adults – including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and […]
Report: “Goodreads Plans to Retire API Access, Disables Existing API Keys”
From Joe Alcorn/readng: In news that surprises nobody, Goodreads last week quietly announced the deprecation of their public APIs. And I mean really quietly – the only people who were told about this were those unfortunate enough to have their existing API keys disabled without warning. Other than a small banner at the top of […]
