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Originally Posted by MGlitch
Hachette Book Group officially pulled the release of the Woody Allen memoir after backlash from Ronan Farrow and a walkout from HBG employees because "Catch and Kill" was being worked on at the same time, and it concerned Woody Allen among others. There were claims Hachette had not fact checked the memoir (though I'll point out memoirs are generally only ever half truths of remembrances) I'm not sure how far along they were in the publishing of the memoir either.
I'm not defending either side here, just giving an example of a book which was dropped by a publisher because of backlash from others.
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Thanks for the example. Though I'd say no one and no-thing was truly cancelled since his memoir was snapped up by another publisher and released (and made many Best Seller lists). Partly, the publisher said, to take a stand against Allen's critics. So it's not like his voice and story were silenced. He wrote it, someone published it, and people bought/read it (and others continued to boycott it).