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• SOURCE: Claire Potter
  1/11/2021
  

  Josh Hawley's Cancelled Book Contract Is Not "Orwellian"

  by Claire Potter

  The author has broadly defended free speech as a value. Josh Hawley's complaints about his cancelled book contract don't fit the bill.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  12/22/2020
  

  Billion-Dollar Book Companies Are Ripping Off Public Schools

  Although they tout the advantages of learning technology, major publishers exploit copyright law and licensing agreements to force school districts to pay $27 per student per year for temporary access to digital copies of books like "The Diary of Anne Frank." 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/4/2020
  

  50 Years On, the Feminist Press Is Radical and Relevant

  A look back at the ongoing work of the Feminist Press and the legacy of founder Florence Howe, who saved the work of many women authors from obscurity and helped support the emerging study of literature by women. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/13/2020
  

  Florence Howe, ‘Mother of Women’s Studies,’ Dies at 91

  Florence Howe faced difficulty in teaching in the early days of Women's Studies: a lack of materials. She started a press that changed that. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  7/1/2020
  

  Celebrating 50 Years of Essence as a Black Women’s Archive

  by Jacinta R. Saffold

  "For the last 50 years, Essence Magazine has consistently found innovative approaches to archiving Black women’s lives by immortalizing our intellect, literature, and culture on glossy pages," writes Jacinta R. Saffold.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  7/1/2020
  

  ‘A Conflicted Cultural Force’: What It’s Like to Be Black in Publishing

  When historian Kerri K. Greenidge was trying to publish her book on William Trotter, publishers responded with "who was going to read a book about a Black man that nobody had ever heard about?"

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/12/2020
  

  For Publishers, Books on Race and Racism Have Been a Surprising Success

  In the last few weeks, books from authors the likes of Ibram X. Kendi, Annette Gordon-Reed, and David W. Blight have seen surges in sales. But in the current moment, how much do sales say about social and political influence?

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• SOURCE: Fox Carolina
  5/12/2020
  

  Carolyn Reidy, President and CEO of Simon & Schuster, Dies at 71

  Carolyn Reidy helped bring the writings of historians including David Blight and David McCullough to a wide readership.  

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  9/22/19
  

  Naomi Wolf’s Book “Outrages” Sparks Debate Over Whether Publishers Should Take Responsibility for the Accuracy of Their Books

  by Alexandra Alter

  Naomi Wolf’s book “Outrages” was postponed after questions emerged about her research.

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• SOURCE: Standford Daily
  4/29/19
  

  Stanford community outraged at SU Press defunding, over 1,000 sign petitions

  Leaders from Stanford Libraries and the Press are now in discussions about how to “develop a sustainable business model” supported by its revenue, modest philanthropy and general funds allocation.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/18/19
  

  In the age of distraction, one small publisher keeps local history alive in sepia tones

  For more than two decades, one small publisher far from New York has been quietly rescuing remnants of history from the flames of oblivion. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12-15-13
  

  Random House Acquires 1800s Prison Memoir

  Random House paid a reported six figures for the manuscript.

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• 6-18-13
  

  American Heritage to Subscribers: Sorry, No Refunds

  by David Austin Walsh

  American Heritage magazine, the embattled quarterly history periodical that suspended print publication in the fall of 2012, is not currently issuing refunds to its 120,000 subscribers, a spokesperson has told HNN.“We're currently restructuring the organization, trying to balance between the non-profit and publishing entities,” said Lee Sutton, online and editorial associate for the magazine. Mr. Sutton said he was not sure about the company's future plans for either refunding subscribers or resumption of publication of the magazine.Mr. Sutton referred our inquiry to the vice president of administration, who did not respond to HNN as of press time.Subscribers are not happy. “I paid for a two-year subscription and received two issues,” wrote one commentator. “No response from AH to my emails. Just hoping someone will take them to court to get our refunds. I used to have respect for AH magazine and its owners.”

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• 5-2-13
  

  American Heritage Magazine Temporarily Suspends Publication

  by David Austin Walsh

  Image via Shutterstock.If you are one of American Heritage magazine's 120,000 subscribers you may be wondering where your copy is. It wasn't lost in the mail. There hasn't been a new issue since last fall.The publication of the print edition of the magazine has been suspended, according to Edwin Grosvenor, the president and editor-in-chief of the American Heritage Publishing Company. The suspension of the magazine will be “temporary,” according to Grosvenor, as the company refocuses its mission on education and digital history.This is the second time in recent years that the storied magazine, founded in the early 1950s, has faced questions about its viability. Forbes, which previously owned American Heritage, suspended publication in the spring of 2008. Grosvenor, the great-grandson of Alexander Graham Bell, stepped in to rescue it that fall.

• SOURCE: BBC News
  2-26-13
  

  Lost Rudyard Kipling poems published

  More than 50 unpublished poems by Rudyard Kipling have been discovered by a US scholar.Thomas Pinney found the manuscripts in a number of places including a Manhattan House that was being renovated and among the papers of a former head of the Cunard Line.Pinney described it as a "tremendously exciting time for scholars and fans".The poems will be published alongside 1,300 others in the first ever complete edition of Kipling's verse on 7 March...

• SOURCE: NYT
  1-31-13
  

  Timeless book may require some timely fact checking

  Journalism is meant to be the first draft of history, and newspaper articles fit that mold nicely, fading into the archives. But books are not so neat.The digitization of books has facilitated the rerelease of a spate of nonfiction works years or decades after their initial publication, and in some cases the common interpretation of their subject matter has evolved or changed significantly.Melville House confronted this situation with its decision to reissue in December a 1964 book by A. M. Rosenthal, “Thirty-Eight Witnesses: The Kitty Genovese Case.” The book was originally released just months after the murder in March 1964 of 28-year-old Catherine Genovese, known as Kitty, who at around 3 a.m. was returning from her job at a tavern to her apartment in Kew Gardens, Queens, when she was assaulted, stabbed to death and then raped by a psychotic killer....