Publishers sue state of Idaho over library book bans | Books | The Guardian

"A group of major publishers in the US are suing the state of Idaho over a book-banning law....

Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and Sourcebooks filed a lawsuit on Tuesday alongside three authors, a public library district, the US writers’ body the Authors Guild, a teacher, two students and two parents.

This is the third state-level publisher-led lawsuit over book bans, following those against Florida and Iowa. The Idaho law “goes even further than previous laws by removing classic books from public libraries in addition to schools”, said Dan Novack, associate general counsel at Penguin Random House...."