cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ninja/post/49635
Book vendors selling to Texas public schools, ranging from national sellers like Amazon to local bookstores with eight employees, must now rate all the books they sell based on sexual content, according to new legislation signed into law on June 12.
If the book vendor fails to comply with state library standards that will be in place by January 1, 2024, they’d be barred from selling to Texas public schools.
Vendors will up the cost to cover additional labour, the books won’t be in the school budget anymore and conservatives’ll have got what they wanted