this looks like more scary stuff from the u.s. govennment:

In an apparent reversal of decades of U.S. practice, recent federal Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations bar American companies from publishing works by dissident writers in countries under sanction unless they first obtain U.S. government approval.

The restriction, condemned by critics as a violation of the First Amendment, means that books and other works banned by some totalitarian regimes cannot be published freely in the United States.

why should it matter what country an author is from to get published? are there other countries that require publishers to attain a license to simply publish a work from an author living in a country the government doesn't like? i'm sure there must be, but i don't know enough to list any. it all sounds like an easy way to censor work the government doesn't want heard. via foreward.