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PEN sets up 'libel watch' in the UK
Free-speech group PEN has set up a 'libel dossier' in the UK, and is asking publishers to alert it whenever they are asked to change a book on legal advice.
Indiana registration law repealed
The US state of Indiana cannot require its retailers--including booksellers--to be registered in order to sell 'sexually explicit' material, a senior judge has ruled.
'Jewel of Medina' is out in the US ... but can anyone find it?
Sherry Jones' controversial The Jewel of Medina has been released in the US, and has apparently sold a respectable 3000 copies so far. But apparently some booksellers aren't making it easy for consume...
Fire at UK publisher 'a terrorist act'
Three men have been arrested under the UK's terrorism laws following a fire at the London offices of publisher Gibson Square Books. Gibson Square is to publish the controversial The Jewel of the ...
PEN petitions China to release imprisoned writers
Free-speech organisation PEN has announced a pre-Olympics campaign to petition China to release 39 writers imprisoned 'for exercising their right to speak and write freely.'
US book industry urges revisions to Patriot Act
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has joined with a number of other industry groups and free-speech advocates to urge revisions to the controversial Partiot Act.
Indiana booksellers fight registration law
Booksellers in the US state of Indiana are gearing up to fight a state law requiring anyone selling 'sexually explicit materials' to register with the state government.
Turkey to amend controversial free speech law
The Turkish government has announced that it is on the verge of approving an amendment to a controversial law that has seen authors and journalists convicted for 'insulting Turkishness.'
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