Trying Something New

What if booksellers took the not-for-profit route? That’s a question Laurene Powell Jobs’s Emerson Collective is looking to answer alongside a growing group of bookstore partners. In more bookselling news, U.K–based new and used book e-tailer World of Books is expanding its stateside presence in the hopes of growing the U.S. into its lead territory over the next three years. In this week’s magazine, we took a look at how authors are reclaiming Indigenous histories and other publishing initiatives serving indigenous communities. And we’ve rounded up all the authors of books for both adults and children to meet at next week’s Winter Institute. Library e-book servicer Hoopla emailed librarians earlier this week pledging to remove AI-generated books from the platform following an investigation by 404 Media. President Donald Trump has named Richard Nixon Foundation president and CEO Jim Byron to a senior archivist role at the National Archives. The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum reopened earlier this week, per the Washington Post, following employee cuts ordered by the Trump administration that left its library director and deputy director working the ticket counter. Retired NFL punter Chris Kluwe was arrested on Tuesday, reports ABC, after a protest at a city council meeting in Huntington Beach, Calif., over a new plaque commemorating the local public library’s anniversary that makes an oblique reference to the MAGA movement. And the University of Michigan Press is reissuing the first known cookbook by a Black American woman this month, per NPR.