The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression is urging ABA members to join with hundreds of other bookstores and libraries across the country to publicize attacks against the freedom to read by participating in Banned Books Week, this year from September 25 – October 2.
ABFFE has announced the election to its Board of Roberta Rubin, owner of The Book Stall at Chestnut Court in Winnetka, Illinois, and Patricia Johnson, executive vice president and editorial director of Alfred A. Knopf, Pantheon, and Schocken Books.
Booksellers are responding enthusiastically to an introductory offer of free 3D bookmarks from emotionGallery, which will make a contribution to the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression for every bookmark that it sells to independent bookstores.
Two insightful, forceful, and persuasive advocates defended opposing sides of a nuanced and important free speech issue at a BEA debate sponsored by the American Booksellers Association for Free Expression, the Association of American Publishers’ Freedom to Read Committee, and the Freedom to Read Foundation.
Maxwell J. Lillienstein, a prominent constitutional law attorney, partner in a New York City law firm, and former general counsel to the American Booksellers Association, died on May 13.
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