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The National Association of Black Bookstores, a member-based nonprofit organization which aims to support and promote Black booksellers, announced its launch on Friday. Its mission, NAB2 said in the announcement, includes "promoting literacy, amplifying Black voices, and preserving Black culture."...

The American Library Association announced July 30 that the Independent Book Publishers Association is now an ALA affiliate. During the 2025 Annual Conference, the ALA Council voted to approve IBPA's application to join the ALA's organizational network. IBPA is the first publishing...

Forty European and global organizations, including the Federation of European Publishers, have issued a joint statement formally complaining to the European Commission about the implementation measures for the European Union AI Act.

PEN America has joined the Free Our Art coalition in supporting the reintroduction of federal legislation that would restrict the use of artistic works—including literature and poetry—as evidence in criminal and civil court proceedings.

Advocacy organization EveryLibrary has shared some of its latest research on the status of library-related policymaking and patrons' library usage across the U.S. In a summary titled "Codifying Censorship or Reclaiming Rights? The State-by-State 2025 Legislative Landscape for Libraries,"...

Coalition-building has been top of mind for the American Library Association, which is fresh from its 2025 Annual Conference with a new strategic plan and a mandate to bolster pro-library partnerships locally and worldwide.

A U.S. Senate hearing held July 16 gave some hope to publishers and authors that at least some members of Congress seem willing to step up the fight against Big Tech companies who knowingly violate copyright laws to train their large language models.

Just four years after Korea's Kakao Entertainment acquired mobile-first serialized fiction platform Radish Fiction for $440 million, the company announced it will shutter the platform at the end of the year. Radish informed users of the closure in a July 3 email. "After nearly a decade, we...

An AI fiction translation service aimed at both traditional publishers and self-published authors has been launched in the UK. GlobeScribe.ai is currently charging $100 per book, per language for use of its translation services.

A boast by a Reform UK councillor that he ensured the removal of "trans-ideological material and books" from the children's section of his county's libraries has fallen flat after it emerged that no such material ever existed there.