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It appears Waterstones is actively censoring Helen Joyce’s bestselling book.
Which is, you know, the whole point of bookstores.
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It appears Waterstones is actively censoring Helen Joyce’s bestselling book.
Which is, you know, the whole point of bookstores.
I wonder why the authorities on high ordered the book in the first place.
Next up: it will be banned from being mentioned during Banned Books Week.
I guess they can have no complaints that customers turn to Amazon.
Helen said in an interview that Waterstones had ordered what amounted to about one book per store, but added that this wasn’t unusual for a book that didn’t seem likely to sell…
That…. perhaps… let Waterstones off the hook a little back before, you know, it spent a couple of weeks on the best-seller list. I don’t like to try to dictate what companies should and shouldn’t do, but – conflictingly – I do think that bookshops have some sort of duty to sell important books. And whatever else you say about this one (it’s great, by the way), it’s important.
As an aside, I’ve been accused by at least half a dozen people of not having read the book because I don’t agree with them – people who openly admit to not having read it – that it is anti-semitic. It’s a little late for me to unpick all the layers of absurdity in that logic, so I’ll just leave it to sink in.
latsot, I sometimes think they have a smidgeon of realistic thought that tells them they really don’t have any sort of case backing up their claims, so they start to throw around racism and anti-semitism to give themselves some reflected…not glory so much as persecution?….to help with the idea that the people they dislike are truly evil, evil, evil.
Just another way they want to tack their own issue onto issues that have been at least somewhat successful, so they can get their way without doing any hard work. They can just dive into someone else’s pool and pretend it was built for them.