#BookstoresAndLibraries

If you conducted a survey, I am fairly certain you’d find that the majority of readers prefer paperbacks to hardcover books.

It’s the AWP Conference and Bookfair this week, and most of the Lit Hub staff has been in Baltimore.

Workers at the American Library Association have announced that they’re forming union with AFSCME Council 31.

Baltimore was dubbed “The City That Reads” in 1988, when newly elected Mayor Kurt Schmoke declared his intention to boost literacy in his inaugural address.

A challenge to a monstrously regressive Florida state law that makes it easier for books to be pulled from school libraries is making its way through a federal circuit court in Atlanta.