John Smith & Son, the academic and specialist bookselling chain, today announced the opening of 3 new campus branches.

Israel's education ministry is to drop from an Arabic language textbook a term describing the creation of the state of Israel as "the catastrophe".

Lawyers for Swedish author Fredrik Colting and his U.S. distributor, SCB Distribution filed an appeal on July 23 with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that a July 1 injunction barring publication of Colting's 60 Years Later: Coming Through

They've announced the longlist for the 2009 Man 'Asian' Literary Prize (which, as longtime readers know, isn't nearly Asian enough for me to claim that name - no titles by authors from Arabic-speaking countries are eligible, none from Iran, none