In Florida , the list of 20,000-plus banned books includes Nutrition For Dummies and PCs For Dummies . In New Hampshire , the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy makes the list. Texas , which bans nearly 9,000 books , once counted a…

People accused of RL Stine of censoring some of his Goosebumps books. However, the author had nothing to do with the edits made back in 2018.

The use of sensitivity readers has sparked a debate over whether they are censors or provide an important service in promoting inclusivity and combating offensive tropes and racial or sexual stereotypes.

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The index is part of the Libro de los Epítomes, an effort by Christopher Columbus' illegitimate son to create a searchable index of the world's knowledge

Long caught between the Western imagination and the Soviet sphere of influence—much like the Balkans themselves—the novelist Vesna Goldsworthy forges something new.

One of the (many) villains in “Walled Culture” the book (free ebook versions) is the publishing industry, specifically in the context of the transition from analogue books to ebooks. Wh…

In his new book Mute Compulsion, Søren Mau argues that to understand and end capitalism, we need to analyze how it not only subordinates the poor to the rich but in fact exerts economic power over everyone — including capitalists themselves.

Rereading an oddly resonant—and prescient—consideration of how computation affects learning.

Reissued versions of Ian Fleming’s classic works will feature a disclaimer following a review by sensitivity readers

If The Case of the Disappearing Quarterback is a murder mystery, how did the victim just write the book? In this quarterback’s autobiography, we find out how Mike Boryla escaped the death sentence of his dozen NFL companions.

ChatGPT appears to have become a prolific author. At the time of writing, the buzzy chatbot developed by OpenAI was credited as the author or coauthor on more than 200 paperbacks and e-books in Amazon's bookstore. The number was first reported by Reuters.

Lloyd Devereux Richards spent 14 years writing 'Stone Maidens.' Now 11 years after it published, it's a No. 1 seller all because of a TikTok video.

There were over 200 e-books in Amazon’s Kindle store as of mid-February listing ChatGPT as an author, but there is no requirement to disclose the use of AI.

Clarkesworld wrestles with flood of machine-made submissions—over 500 in Feb. alone.

It took Lloyd Devereux Richards 14 years to write his first novel. But it was his daughter's 12-second TikTok video that finally turned it into a hit. Richards, 74, wrote Stone Maidens on evenings and weekends, in between working a full-time job as a corporate attorney at a Vermont insurance company, and taking care of his children. When he finally published it in 2012, it only sold a few dozen copies here and there.

Quietly and systematically, the author’s entire catalogue has been reworked in a bid for ‘relevancy’'

In 1977, Stephen King’s career flourished. His first three books, Carrie, Salem’s Lot and The Shining, had become worldwide bestsellers, and the author was already creating another blockbuster – over a thousand pages of The Stand. In addition, he had a drawer full of previously unpublished novels. With a frantic pace of creation (the author supported himself with stimulants), the writer had more material than he could publish. In those days, most publishers were limited to one book a year by a given author.

Imagine reading this verse from the Old Testament with no context: “When she was a prostitute in Egypt ... she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.”

The video game is the latest battleground over the “Harry Potter” author’s comments on transgender issues, with fans and gamers divided over whether they should play it at all.