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Trump sharply launches the first African American librarian of Congress

With a seemingly without warning, the first woman and the first African American, who is a congress librarian, received an email from the White House presidential cabinet, which informed Carla Hayden that she had been fired. AP News reported that Hayden recently fell under the firing of the conservative advocacy group of American Foundation for “Promoting Children’s Books with Radical Content and Literary Material, author of Trump’s opponents”. Hayden’s leadership, such as New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich, has stated in exhaustively to be horrified by the welcoming take -offs of good people who do a good job, and I cannot start imagining how Hayden felt such a bump and a displersing email.

For that romance “Fyre Fest of Book Festivals”

This quote is from the author Kait Disney-Lugers, one of the participants in Million Lives, who took at Tiktok to unpack the event, advertised as a gathering, including “Seller Hall, Panel, Room, Fandom Cosplay Meet UPS, Cross and Ball competition.” If you have guessed the topic that tea is not about how great the event is, you have guessed correctly. Numerous authors who have appeared have reported a scarce presence, contrary to turnout, which are said to have been promised. Of course, visiting is important for the quality of every event, but especially for authors who apply for table signs in the hope of selling books. You really need to see Tiktoks (many of which have passed viral) to find out the gloomy: the sad conference mass, mostly empty hall, washing the corporate gray. The many legal marketing conferences I attended in my previous career seem glamorous to compare. The participants paid $ 50 to $ 250 a ticket, and the author Persians Jay said she flew to Maryland from Texas to attend and plan many big life events around participation. Whoof. What a mess. You can read about this and find some of the videos in CutS

Amazon’s collision with an independent bookstore can be repeated

Vibrations without care that could take care of Brew’s Amazon response when they asked him if they would avoid planning his week to sell big books around Independent Bookstore Day. This year, Amazon’s Second Annual Book Sale Ran April 23–28 and Independent Bookstore Day, Which Has Not Shifted Its Schedule for the Past 12 Years, WAS HELD ON APRIL 26. When Asked by Various Media Outlets Who Picked Up The Story, Has Mainteined That The Overlap Was Unintentional, Hey did Not Offer Retail Brew Ansyr About Wheth, Doo IT AG Indie bookstores are a beloved institution and optics is bad for Amazon, but I suppose Amazon relies on a lack of awareness or maybe even apathy from its base to find convenience, search for comfort-if They decided to think about it while planning to sell their book. While the question of whether Amazon inadvertently helped the independent bookstore day, as these sales increased by 77% compared to the previous year, Chief Communications of the American Book Sellers Association did not have it. “Amazon doesn’t help independent bookstores. A period,” Ray T. Daniels said.