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American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression.article_title {font:13px arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-weight:bold;}div.float {float: right; width: 300px; padding: 10px;} div.float p {text-align: justify;}span.detailstory {}span.SYSHYPERTEXT {mso-style-parent:""; color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single}span.skypetbinnertext {}  AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS FOUNDATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION        Sign up for the ABFFE UPDATE newsletter: E-mail address: Unsubscribe from ABFFE Update  Bookstores, Libraries Ready for Banned Books Week, Sept. 27-Oct. 4, 2008 Next week, hundreds of bookstores and libraries across the country will celebrate Banned Books Week, the only national celebration of the freedom to read. Over 150 booksellers and librarians have submitted information about the displays and events they are organizing for the 27th annual event, held this year from Sept. 27 through Oct. 4. The information is displayed on a new Web site, www.bannedbooksweek.org, which was launched this year by ABFFE, the American Library Association (ALA), and other sponsors of Banned Books Week. The Web site is designed to help the public learn about Banned Books Week and suggest ways they can support it. Its key feature is a list that visitors can use to find participating bookstores and libraries in their communities. (To submit information to the Web site, click here.) To kick off Banned Books Week this year, the American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom, the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum, and the Chicago Tribune will host a Banned Books Week Read-Out in Chicago. The event will feature popular banned and challenged authors, including Judy Blume, Lois Lowry, and Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, and local Chicago celebrities. Among the many events and displays planned around the country, King's Books in Tacoma, WA, will host "Storytime with Banned Books," a panel discussion on Internet filtering, two film screenings, and a panel discussion on censorship and intellectual freedom, organized with the Collins Memorial Library at the University of Puget Sound campus. Moravian Bookshop in Bethlehem, PA, will offer a community scroll that reads, "I Read Banned Books," for customers and elected officials to sign and ballots that customers can use to vote for their favorite banned books.  Free Speech Groups Urge Congress to Ban "Libel Tourism" On September 10, ABFFE and 18 groups issued a statement urging Congress to protect American writers and publishers from the growing threat posed by libel suits that are filed in foreign countries in an effort to intimidate them. The lawsuits are filed in countries that offer less protection for criticism than the United States and where the burden of proof rests with the defendant to prove the truth of any allegedly libelous statement. Defendants in these cases sometimes have to defend their books in countries where they have never been published. The practice of filing foreign libel cases against Americans has been denounced as "libel tourism." The statement, which was sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee, calls for passage of the Free Speech Protection Act of 2008 (S. 2977). Modeled on a New York law, S. 2977 provides that foreign libel judgments cannot be enforced in the United States if the speech is not actionable under U.S. law. S. 2977 also authorizes U.S. authors to countersue the foreign plaintiffs in a U.S. court for damages of up to three times the amount of the foreign judgment if the foreign plaintiff acted to suppress their speech. Click here to read the statement. ABFFE Offers Teachers Support in Censorship Battles ABFFE's support for teachers who confront efforts to censor books is highlighted in an article in the new RHI Magazine, a publication for educators issued by Random House. The magazine focuses on censorship and banned books and features articles from prominent free speech advocates and educators. ABFFE President Chris Finan's article, "Your Bookseller: A Friend of Free Speech," describes the crucial role booksellers play in supporting free speech in their communities. Click here to read the article. To request a free copy of the magazine, contact Rebecca Zeidel, (212) 587-4025 ext. 13; rebecca@abffe.com. Judge Strikes Down Indiana Bookstore Registration Law On July 1, a federal judge in Indianapolis struck down an Indiana law requiring bookstores and other retail establishments that sell even a single “sexually explicit” book, magazine, video or recording to register with the state as an "adult" business and pay a $250 license fee. “Clearly, a vast array of merchants and materials is implicated by the reach of this statute as written,” Judge Sarah Evans Barker declared in a written opinion. “A romance novel sold at a drugstore, a magazine offering sex advice in a grocery store checkout line, an R-rated DVD sold by a video rental shop, a collection of old Playboy magazines sold by a widow at a garage sale – all incidents of unquestionably lawful, non-obscene, non-pornographic material being sold to adults – would appear to necessitate registration under the statute.” The Indiana Attorney General has announced that he will not appeal the decision.  Barker agreed with ABFFE, Big Hat Books of Indianapolis, Boxcar Books and Community Center of Bloomington and the other plaintiffs that the law would have a chilling effect on the sale of constitutionally protected works. To avoid being labeled an “adult” store, retailers would have been forced to suppress the sale of almost all works with sexual content. “There can be no doubt that compliance with such a vague mandate will be unduly burdensome, will have a chilling effect on expression, and will fail to provide ordinary people with a reasonable degree of notice as to the law’s requirements; the Constitution demands no less,” Barker said. Click here to read bookseller reactions to the decision in Bookselling This Week. Click here to read Barker’s opinion. Judge Sets October 3 Hearing in Oregon Case A federal judge in Portland has set October 3 as the date for a final hearing in the challenge that ABFFE, six booksellers, and a coalition of groups have filed in an effort to overturn portions of Oregon's "harmful to minors" law. U.S. District Court Judge Michael W. Mosman scheduled the hearing on the motion for a permanent injunction on June 30 after denying a request for a preliminary injunction. Oregon House Bill 2843 makes it a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail to allow a minor under 13 to view or purchase a “sexually explicit” work. Booksellers have challenged the law because it does not include a requirement that a book or magazine be judged as a whole in determining whether it is illegal. The U.S. Supreme Court requires such a test to protect works that contain only a few sexually explicit images or passages. Booksellers also object to the lack of an exemption for material that has serious literary artistic, political or scientific value for minors—another Supreme Court requirement. To read more about the case, click here.  ABFFE BOOK OF THE MONTH  The ABFFE Book of the Month for September is Obscene in the Extreme: the Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath by Rick Wartzman (Public Affairs), 978-1586483319. Wartzman describes the uproar that occurred in Kern County, California, when The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939. Much of the novel was set in Kern County, and local officials attempted to ban the book for misrepresenting their community and for language and situations they considered indecent. The censors were opposed by the local librarian and ACLU. Click here to read an interview with Rick Wartzman. To read about recent ABFFE Book of the Month selections, click here. Show Your Support for Freadom! ABFFE's popular “freadom” t-shirts, buttons, bookmarks, bumper stickers, and more are available during Banned Books Week and all year round. To order online, visit the ABFFE store. For further information, contact Rebecca Zeidel, (212) 587-4025, ext. 13; rebecca@abffe.com.  ABFFE is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to booksellers who are faced with subpoenas, search warrants, and other demands for customer information. In case of First Amendment emergency, please call ABFFE at (212) 587-4025 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. EST, Monday through Friday. During the evenings and weekends, call (800) 727-4203. For more information, click here. Member of  www.freeexpression.org  Visit the American Booksellers Association's    |
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