State of America’s Libraries 2019

The year’s top 10 most “challenged” books – novels and other works threatened with censorship or banning – turns out to include eleven titles.

ABA CEO Teicher To Retire

The ABA under Oren Teicher’s watch grew from1,401 member with 1,651 stores in 2009, to 1,835 companies with 2,470 stores in 2018.

Authors at London Book Fair Vote on Brexit

The “psychological effect” of Brexit on researchers, said Tim Britton “is impossible to measure” and could potentially have a far bigger impact than any of the actual policies Brexit may eventually settle on.

The Race to the Streamers

Porter Anderson, Publishing Perspectives editor-in-chief, notes important ways that the exchange between page and screen is evolving.

Alexa, Read My Book

‘Alexa read me my book.’ is a popular refrain from people who want to unwind after work, and that’s changing the way audiobooks are being marketed.

Searching For Bestsellers On Wattpad

At Wattpad, says Ashleigh Gardner “we have a huge pool of content that we could never read ourselves as human editors. We really lean on machine learning to help us understand what those stories are about before we even open the page.”

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