Editing Book (section)

== Social and cultural issues ==

=== Reception ===
{{Main|Literary criticism}}

The impact of books can be various, and record of that reception comes in several formats: starting with initial public reception in contemporary newspapers, [[Popular culture|pop culture]] and correspondence, and then developing with different forms of literary criticism by professional and academic critics. For the publishing industry the "book review" is an important part of increasing awareness and reception of a book: able to make or break the public opinion about a new book.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}

==== Book reviews ====
{{Excerpt|Book review}}

=== Book censorship and bans ===
[[Book censorship]] is the act of some authority taking measures to suppress ideas and information within a book.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=McClure |first1=Donald |title=Book Censorship and Its Threat to Critical Inquiry in Social Studies Education |journal=Northwest Journal of Teacher Education |date=22 November 2022 |volume=17 |issue=3 |doi=10.15760/nwjte.2022.17.3.9|doi-access=free }}</ref> [[Censorship]] is "the regulation of free speech and other forms of entrenched authority".<ref>{{cite book|title=Culture Wars in America : an Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices|isbn=978-0765683175|edition= 2nd |publisher=M.E. Sharpe |location=Armonk, New York|oclc=881383488|last1=Chapman|first1=Roger|last2=Ciment|first2=James|date=2014}}</ref> Censors typically identify as either a concerned parent, community members who react to a text without reading, or local or national organizations.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ericdigests.org/pre-9215/library.htm |title=The Right To Read: Censorship in the School Library. ERIC Digest. |website=www.ericdigests.org |language=en |access-date=2019-04-15}}</ref> Books have been censored by authoritarian dictatorships to silence dissent, such as the [[People's Republic of China]], [[Nazi Germany]] and the [[Soviet Union]]. Books are most often censored for age appropriateness, offensive language, sexual content, amongst other reasons.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://libguides.butler.edu/bannedbooks?p=217686 |title=LibGuides: Banned Books: Reasons for Banning Books |last=Commons |first=Information |website=libguides.butler.edu |language=en |access-date=2019-04-17}}</ref> Similarly, religions may issue lists of banned books, such as the historical example of the [[Catholic Church]]'s ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]'' and bans of such books as [[Salman Rushdie|Salman Rushdie's]] ''[[The Satanic Verses]]'' by [[Ayatollah Khomeini]],<ref>{{cite journal |last=Swan |first=John |date=1991 |title='The Satanic Verses,' the 'Fatwa,' and Its Aftermath: A Review Article |journal=The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy |volume=61 |issue=4 |pages=429–443}}</ref> which do not always carry legal force. Censorship can be enacted at the national or subnational level as well, and can carry legal penalties. In many cases, the authors of these books could face harsh sentences, exile from the country, or even execution.<ref>{{cite news |title=A Uyghur gets death sentence, as China bans once OK'd books |url=https://apnews.com/article/uyghur-death-sentence-china-banned-books-6da7d5d6ed5c9937d1a4796b3bcb94b1 |author=Huizhong Wu|work=AP News |date=1 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Natanson |first1=Hannah |title=School librarians face a new penalty in the banned-book wars: Prison |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/18/school-librarians-jailed-banned-books/ |newspaper=Washington Post |date=May 18, 2023}}</ref>

==== Book burning ====
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