Roll Call

Employees at Brooklyn’s Center for Fiction could soon join a growing roster of New York City bookstores to unionize through RWDSU, pending recognition from the Center’s board. Unbound, a U.K.-based crowdfunding publisher that lost $39 million for shareholders before being sold in March, still owes an estimated $3.1 million to creditors. After nearly a dozen Philadelphia school districts managed to add librarians and increase library services amid nationwide declines in school library staffing, districts across the country are taking steps to replicate their success. And the Authors Guild has launched a petition to Congress to reinstate register of copyrights Shira Perlmutter. Speaking of Congress, Republicans have added a proposal to the House budget bill that would ban all state regulation of AI for 10 years, per Bloomberg Government. Tribal communities could lose their libraries due to the Trump administration’s cuts to the IMLS, and an Ohio man has been accused of burning 100 books on Black, Jewish, and queer history from his own local library, reports NBC News. U.K. publishers and authors are breathing a sigh of relief after proposed changes to the country’s IP laws were scrapped, reports the Bookseller. Ottessa Moshfegh’s Death in Her Hands will be adapted into a film starring Tilda Swinton, per Variety. And ScreenRant unpacks the controversy around a new dystopian novel blowing up on BookTok.