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Keep It Moving
Grantees and employees at the Institute of Museum and Library Services have the law backing them up in Rhode Island, where a federal judge isn’t indulging DOJ attorneys’ requests to delay justice. Amazon has cut a number of jobs in its Kindle and Goodreads units. We shine a light on the New York Book Forum, the five-year-old organization whose programming aims to bring the book business together and demystify the industry for the public. Elsie Silver’s Rose Hill books are getting a series adaptation at Amazon, reports Variety. OpenAI is fighting a court order to preserve all ChatGPT user logs after news organizations suing over copyright claims accused the company of destroying evidence, reports Ars Technica. The Atlantic warns of the dangers of misunderstanding how large language models like ChatGPT really work. For Alta, Ishmael Reed shares his disillusionment with the publishing industry. And tomorrow, librarians, booksellers, teachers, and more will gather at more than 100 events across the country for the fifth annual Teach Truth Day of Action.
On June 5, Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the Rhode Island district court denied defendants’ request for a stay pending appeal on his May 13 preliminary injunction, in a case to restore three federal agencies targeted by the White House, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services. more »
The e-tail giant has laid off an undisclosed number of employees in its books division, adding that fewer than 100 roles were affected. The cuts include roles in Amazon’s Kindle unit and at book review platform Goodreads. more »
Formed just months before the onset of the pandemic, the organization’s goal is to build a sense of community among people from across all sectors of the book business, as well as to strengthen ties between the industry and the general public. more »
Flatiron Books will publish the Atlantic staff writer’s third novel, Last Night in Brooklyn, in April 2026, as well as her debut nonfiction book, Need/Blind. more »
New business and economics titles lend historical perspective to a chaotic present. more »
New books steer readers through life’s tricky passages. more »
A pair of new books show how the pop icon is more of a boss. more »
Simon & Schuster has inked a distribution deal with White Star, Baker & Taylor will represent the sales and distribution for three new publishers, and more. more »
British Columbia publishers, authors, and librarians have collaborated to create a browsable list of e-books originating in and emblematic of the province. more »
George and Martha and Frog and Toad are among the most memorable duos in children’s literature, beloved for the way their relationships convey the true value of friendship. Their creators, James Marshall and Arnold Lobel, are now the subjects of two picture book biographies. more »
Arriel Vinson's (l.) first YA book, Under the Neon Lights, is a novel-in-verse about young Black love and coming of age in Indianapolis. We invited Vinson to discuss her debut with her friend Leah Johnson, a fellow author and Indiana University alumna, and Vinson’s mentor through the Reese’s Book Club LitUp Fellow program. more »
Who can keep up with Ann Liang? The Chinese Australian author has been sustaining a tenacious release schedule since the 2022 release of her debut YA novel If You Could See the Sun, which is being developed into a TV series. We spoke with Liang about her new books, including the summer romance Never Thought I’d End Up Here, out now from Scholastic. more »
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Job Moves
- Jerri Helms has been promoted to SVP of marketing operations at HarperCollins Christian Publishing.
Awards News
- Polefrone Wins Harvard Fellowship: Philomena Polefrone, the associate director of the ABA’s American Booksellers for Free Expression initiative, has received Harvard’s Carr-Ryan Fellowship to research “the role of independent bookstores as the vanguard and final line of defense for the right to read in the United States.”
Bookstore News
- Spotlight on Santa Barbara Bookmobile: All Booked Up, the brainchild of three local educators, is a new bookstore-on-wheels that travels around the coastal city and specializes in romance and fantasy.
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The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig is #1 on our overall list this week. See the full list »
‘Dogs’ by C. Mallon“In this raw and brilliant debut novel, C. Mallon traces the late teen years of Hal and his group of misfit friends, wrestlers who mainly smoke, drink, and take any drug available to ease their feelings of irrelevance and isolation.... This one hits hard.” more »
Picture of the Day
Author-illustrator Adam Gustavson signed copies of his new picture book, The Aliens Do NOT Want to Go Home (Charlesbridge), at the Strand Book Store in New York on May 30. The signed copies will be included in the Strand's upcoming Little Readers subscription box.
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