Forthcoming: WAR by Bob Woodward
Simon & Schuster will publish WAR by Bob Woodward on October 15, which “tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars—Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency.” According to the AP, Woodward “has turned in a completed manuscript, but continues to report and may still revise ‘War’ before it goes to the printers.” “We have the capacity to react quickly if there’s a new development,” a spokesperson told the outlet.
New Books Publishing August 6
This week’s fiction releases include new titles by Casey McQuiston, Brad Thor, Sarah Pekkanen, and Gabino Iglesias, while Nancy Pelosi publishes a memoir. August’s children’s releases include books by Ransom Riggs, Ellen Hopkins, and Gary D. Schmidt. Also publishing this week are Abi Daré’s AND SO I ROAR and Alejandro Puyana’s FREEDOM IS A FEAST, both excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer sampler. 40 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-august-6 10 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-august-6 50 children’s titles https://bookshop.org/lists/august-2024-children-s-releases From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in […]
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Court Rules Against Circumvention of Copyright Protections
A DC Circuit Court rejected an appeal that challenged protections for copyrighted works. The case was originally brought in 2016 by the Electronic Frontier Foundation on behalf of a computer science professor and a tech inventor, who argued that preventing technological measures to circumvent copyright protections, or locks on digital media–as established by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act–was unconstitutional. Their claims were struck down in 2022 in an as-applied case, and now have been denied on a facial basis. In a decision passed down on Friday, Judge Cornelia Pillard wrote, “The First Amendment protects a right to read, but it […]