Kenny Brechner, owner of DDG Booksellers in Farmington, ME, resigned from the ABA board following a change in the organization’s free speech policy. Brechner asserted in ShelfTalker (his column for Publishers Weekly) that the ABA’s September change in its ends policies would “restrict its active support and defense of free expression.” Citing new language that pledges to ensure “members have the resources in support of their right to freedom of expression,” Brechner charges, “This nebulous statement undermined ABA’s long established role as a defender of free expression in the literary world. Pointedly it constricted ABFE’s [American Booksellers For Free Expression] […]
