Free Expression

On Tuesday, July 13, a coalition including the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, Harvard Book Store, and Porter Square Books filed suit to block a broad Massachusetts censorship law that bans constitutionally protected speech on the Internet.

Booksellers are responding enthusiastically to an introductory offer of free 3D bookmarks from emotionGallery, which will make a contribution to the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression for every bookmark that it sells to independent bookstores.

Two insightful, forceful, and persuasive advocates defended opposing sides of a nuanced and important free speech issue at a BEA debate sponsored by the American Booksellers Association for Free Expression, the Association of American Publishers’ Freedom to Read Committee, and the Freedom to Read Foundation. 

Maxwell J. Lillienstein, a prominent constitutional law attorney, partner in a New York City law firm, and former general counsel to the American Booksellers Association, died on May 13.

The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, which will mark its 20th anniversary at BEA, is issuing a timeline that highlights some of the battles it has fought.

emotionGallery, a French company with a new line of innovative bookmarks using lenticular images to create animated and 3D effects, will contribute $1 to ABFFE for every 10 bookmarks distributed by independent bookstores.

Former Congressman Tom Allen, the president and CEO of the Association of American Publishers, will moderate a debate at BEA over the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down limits on the money that corporations can spend in political campaigns.

By Chris Finan, President of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression It sounded like just one more piece of bad news. The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court announced in January that it was striking down a ban on campaign spending by corporations.

The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) will host a program at BookExpo America that will explore the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down limits on the money corporations can spend in political campaigns.

The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) is seeking bookstores to become plaintiffs in challenges to new censorship laws in Alaska and Massachusetts. The laws ban the electronic communications of material that is "harmful to minors," including the display of "harmful" book jackets and excerpts on bookstore websites.