Industry Scrambling to Comply with Child Safety Act
By Karen Raugust -- School Library Journal, 1/12/2009 2:05:00 PM
Publishers Weekly Story: The children’s book industry is currently dealing with a new and pressing challenge that is threatening publishers, bookstores, libraries, and schools. It’s not the economy or school spending or reading rates—it is a recent act of Congress, which has blindsided the industry with the implementation of stiff safety standards on all children’s products, and whose application to books is vague.
It has left many publishers, retailers and industry groups scrambling to interpret the law and determine what kinds of compliance will be required, and at what cost.
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