Publishers Weekly - According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of people employed in book publishing in the United States fell to 54,822 in 2023, down from 91,100 in 1997. If accurate, that represents a loss of about 40% of traditional publishing jobs in less than 30 years.
Publishers Weekly -With Banned Books Week 2024 underway, the American Library Association released its preliminary data documenting attempts to censor books and materials in public, school, and academic libraries, finding that the number of tracked challenges fell significantly for the first eight months of 2024. Between January 1 and August 31, 2024, ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom tracked 414 challenges to censor library materials and services that amounted to 1,128 unique titles challenged. That’s down from 695 cases and 1,915 unique titles challenged during the same period last year, and puts the 2024 numbers on pace to come in well below 2023, when ALA tracked a total of 1,247 demands to censor books and 4,240 unique book titles targeted for censorship—a 65% surge over 2022 numbers.
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