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Originally Posted by j.p.s
It goes beyond authors' hurt feelings when books are being cancelled before they are published.
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Surely I implied an economic hit and not just "hurt feelings"?
As for books being canceled, each story is different but it comes down to business. If an author or a publisher thinks bad premature reviews on Goodreads are a bellwether of poor sales and presumably has the data to support it, so it goes. They're under no obligation to throw good money after bad, presumably; certainly they can't do anything they're not contractually allowed to do. It's easy but of little utility to file all the instances under a loaded word like "canceled."