Here's what for me is the central passage in
Arundhati Roy's open letter:
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And now, even though there was no fatwa, no ban, not even a court order, you have not only caved in, you have humiliated yourself abjectly before a fly-by-night outfit by signing settlement. Why? You have all the resources anybody could possibly need to fight a legal battle.
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That's what is scary to me. It's bloody Penguin. It's as monster big and multinational as it gets, not some small independent publisher whose existence may be jeopardised by a long lawsuit and harrassment by nutjobs. So if Penguin caves in - who won't in the future?