NEW YORK — A graphic novel for children from the wildly popular “Captain Underpants” series is being pulled from library and book store shelves after its publisher said it “perpetuates passive racism.”
Six popular Dr. Seuss books — including And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo — “will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy said Tuesday,” The Associated Press reported.
Former President Barack Obama announced Thursday he had finished volume one of his memoirs, all 768 pages of it.
University of Pennsylvania Professor Carlin Romano, who describes himself as “pro-Black Lives Matter,” is facing calls for his termination over comments he made in which he argued that the publishing industry is not racist. Hundreds of students have signed a petition that calls for Romano to be fired.
NEW YORK — Author Joanna Cole, whose “Magic School Bus” books transported millions of young people on extraordinary and educational adventures, has died at age 75.
NEW YORK — Vogue’s Anna Wintour has apologized in an internal email for “mistakes” made in her 32-year tenure in not doing enough to elevate black voices on her staff and publishing images and stories that have been racially and culturally “hurtful or intolerant.”
Michael Savage’s Liberalism is a Mental Disorder is the most commonly stolen book at San Francisco’s public library.
A Christian book company with the initials “CBD” has decided to drop the name after being inundated with requests for cannabis-related products.
Amazon, which has been the world’s largest bookseller for over two decades, recently launched a publishing house that could permanently change the book industry.
Europe’s largest digital publishing house is joining up with the News Media Alliance (NMA), a U.S. trade association, to lobby in America and take on Google and Facebook and their grip on advertising revenue.
Failed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is teasing her latest book. The tome will continue her almost year-long mission of publicly picking through the wreckage of her doomed campaign and already has the title: “What Happened.”
The New York Times reports Tuesday that upcoming books from Breitbart News editors Milo Yiannopoulos and Joel Pollak are part of a shake-up “within the largely left-leaning publishing world.”
The first reprint of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” in Germany since World War II has proved a surprise bestseller, heading for its sixth print run, its publisher said Tuesday.
Phyllis Schlafly, the conservative polemicist and activist icon who passed away September 5, is beating Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in the book market despite intense public interest in the 2016 campaign.
