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Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Names. Authors, book titles and publishers, please. Whose art is the literary world being deprived of in this day and age of anybody-can-write/sell-a-book?

There are examples if you google this, especially in YA or are around on Twitter news at all. Several authors withdraw their own books due to harassment and targeted campaigns instead of publisher cancellation due to online pressure/bullying. It varies case by case, even with death threats and boycotts.

Just a few articles mentioning a few books/authors. Several of these articles mention more than one book or author example.

• The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter
• How a Twitter Mob Derailed an Immigrant Female Author’s Budding Career
• Kosoko Jackson pulls debut novel over sensitivity concerns - also another indepth article on this same book/situation, Teen Fiction and Perils of Cancel Culture
• Why are Young-Adult Fiction Writers Cannibalizing Each Other?
• Torn apart: Authors who write about marginalised communities are facing abuse, boycotts and even death threats. What is cancel culture doing to young adult fiction?
• Teen Twitter Fiction is eating its young
• US author loses book deal for twitter shaming
• Bestselling children’s author dropped after throwing her support behind JK Rowling amid ‘transphobia’ row - Bestselling Scottish author Gillian Philip has been let go by her publisher after putting “I stand with JK Rowling” in her Twitter handle.
  In dropping Linda Fairstein, the book industry reveals its cowardice