Hundreds of writers and book agents sign
joint letter demanding publishing
industry bans Trump memoir
Independent (UK),
by
Gino Spocchia
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
1/18/2021 12:44:34 PM
Editors, publishing agents and authors have signed-up to a letter in the hundreds, demanding the industry deny Donald Trump the publication of any post-presidential memoir. The letter, titled "No Book Deals for Traitors,” was signed by more than 250 editors, authors and publishing agents last week.(Snip) Among the letter’s signatories are staffers from the five biggest publishing houses, Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan. Mr Lyga told the Los Angeles Times in an email that publishers should “act to the dictates of their conscience and to the extent they are able to effect change,”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
marbles 1/18/2021 12:46:38 PM (No. 665062)
How eager they are to ban speech , to embrace fascism. And they believe that they are the enlightened ones.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 1/18/2021 12:47:36 PM (No. 665065)
The Marxist fascists are getting really nasty.
There will be some publisher for Trump books, regardless of their efforts, and if not, he can easily self-publish.
In addition to being obnoxious, nasty little punks, they are really stupid people.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 1/18/2021 12:48:55 PM (No. 665068)
IMHO, it would be far more effective to allow Mister Trump to publish his book and then have the National Guard stage raids on all the book shops selling it and stack them all up in one giant pile on the National Mall and have the Thunderbirds drop napalm on them. I mean, that's entertainment, folks. C'mon, Man!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
RUReadyY3K 1/18/2021 12:52:49 PM (No. 665071)
Why not just burn the books after they are published?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 1/18/2021 12:54:52 PM (No. 665073)
They should maybe read Fahrenheit 451.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 1/18/2021 12:56:06 PM (No. 665075)
They are terrified people will actually buy the book, read it, and enjoy it. Obama's and Clintoon's books were mostly used for boat anchors and door stops.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/18/2021 12:59:13 PM (No. 665079)
Who is pushing this crap? This is not happening in a vacuum.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 1/18/2021 1:00:04 PM (No. 665082)
I remember when these same people burned Bibles. Welcome to the new world order.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
smokincol 1/18/2021 1:01:45 PM (No. 665086)
boy, they're all piling on, huh? they haven't read history because communists eliminate their own because of paranoia and climbing the power structure ladder. they really are the basest animals on the planet.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jimboscott 1/18/2021 1:06:31 PM (No. 665091)
Liberalism... looking more and more like religious dogma by the day.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Daisymay 1/18/2021 1:07:56 PM (No. 665092)
No worries. By 2022 our Country will have had a Belly Full of the Biden Administration and all their Dirty Deals. That is what will bring back a Republican House and a few more Republican Senators. After that, the MAGA Crowd will kick into action and Donald Trump will be Everywhere! He will have so many Rallies he won't need to put out a Book. He will be telling his experience in Person. He might be running in 2024, or he might be backing someone like Don Jr., Matt Gaetz, Ron DeSantis or another up and coming Firebrand that Trump deems worthy. Trump will make the call who will Run if he doesn't do it himself! Count on it! As for the Book, they can try to stop it, but SOMEONE will publish it. If the Book Stores won't carry it, they will probably see enough protesters in front of their stores to change their minds. If Amazon refuses to carry it, well, you see what happened to Fox News!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 1/18/2021 1:09:47 PM (No. 665097)
Traitor?
Why did they publish Obama, then? he's the one who dissed the United States at every opportunity, in word and deed, weakening us, making us more vulnerable. Hillary? she's the one who facilitated selling our uranium to the Russians. Michelle O? why, she's the one who said we "had to get rid of our history and traditions..." How about Billy Clinton? well we all know what his distractions were, under the desk, in the ante room? on the unsecured telephone?
Those publishing houses have produced every manner of book, from the utterly debased and perverse to revolutionary tomes and the demonic to belles-lettres to the great classics. They have now exposed what's under their skirts and it's really disgusting. I'm think of defacing some of those books on my shelves which i no longer want to keep and sending back to them.
I ask again, why do these people hate Donald J. Trump with such irrational, indeed, insane hatred? Don't they know that hatred corrodes the heart and mind of the hater?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
leonardo 1/18/2021 1:15:56 PM (No. 665103)
The MISSION of witting & unwitting agents of the LEFT now is the stifling of free speech. The ‘treason’ accusation by these Stepford TOOLS now is equivalent to the “RUSSIA” hoax accusation and the IMPEACHMENT circus. All FALSE. This stifling shows the utter disdain that Trump supporters elicit from the “enlightened” fools controlled by the Alinsky-ite puppeteers behind the curtain.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/18/2021 1:22:03 PM (No. 665106)
It all started with "hate speech"...it's all becoming hate unless the cognoscenti agree with its content. And what brave soul will stand up for free speech? Anyone? Really, we all must.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Do you agree?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
berthabutt 1/18/2021 1:23:57 PM (No. 665108)
Ask Robespierre how it all turns out for those anxious to use the guillotine?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 1/18/2021 1:27:48 PM (No. 665110)
Shouldn't it read hundreds of better the others writers and book agents demand that millions be denied access to information? Why are these hundreds so darn smart that they can demand others are denied their rights to political information?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
reefdiver 1/18/2021 1:30:00 PM (No. 665111)
Some of them (ABC News for one), have already called for a "purge" of Trump supporters. How long before the concentration camps?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 1/18/2021 1:32:20 PM (No. 665112)
You know, of course, that Trump has ways and means of doing an end run around the cancel culture eventually don't you? Off shore publishers are standing in line with their inflated prices and expertise and their hats in hand
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
carpathia 1/18/2021 1:32:38 PM (No. 665114)
In turn, I am banning the authors and books who are doing this.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Tusker 1/18/2021 1:33:30 PM (No. 665115)
Fake news “Making America Miserable Again” (MAMA).
Already a best seller and it is not even out yet!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
kono 1/18/2021 1:33:40 PM (No. 665116)
How many hundred? Two hundred? Three hundred? Does the Independent consider that a big number?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
4Justice 1/18/2021 1:34:07 PM (No. 665117)
We should create a list of these writers and publishers so we can boycott all of them.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 1/18/2021 1:36:51 PM (No. 665120)
Self publish and tell us where to send the check. Reserve mine now, please.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
The Remnants 1/18/2021 1:37:29 PM (No. 665121)
More fascism.
9 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
bubby 1/18/2021 1:39:56 PM (No. 665124)
Publishing houses are nothing more than a money laundering cabal for corrupt leftists!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/18/2021 1:40:42 PM (No. 665125)
President Trump can self publish and sell more copies than ever. How about we never buy any of the books you publish or have ever published? Shut up!
My motto is now cancel them before they cancel me.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
NYbob 1/18/2021 1:43:58 PM (No. 665128)
The grinning toad who organized this lives somewhere in New York and writes young adult fiction and comics. He has bought all the lies of the left propaganda and then upped the bet by going full Orwell. A really disgusting example of what simple minds have brought upon us- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lyga
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
aliciacolon 1/18/2021 1:44:39 PM (No. 665129)
The smart publisher who does publish it will get 75k buyers immediately
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
mindsport 1/18/2021 1:46:18 PM (No. 665131)
I printed, yes in paper, the Whitehouse list of Trumps accomplishments, and other important summaries of fact that I fear will be lost in electronic format for years to come. I was reading an article off MSN this morning talking about the censorship by TWiTTER and Facebook, having a positive effect because talk of the fraudulent election had dropped by 70%. So sad!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/18/2021 1:47:41 PM (No. 665132)
Shows who the 250 'traitors ' really are. If PDT does write his memoirs there will be instant 75 million buyers.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
SavageRider 1/18/2021 1:50:02 PM (No. 665138)
Hundreds I tell you ... Hundreds.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
john56 1/18/2021 1:52:07 PM (No. 665142)
Good. Then he'll publish it on his own and cut the publishers' take out of the mix.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Krause 1/18/2021 2:06:07 PM (No. 665161)
Well if he’s a ‘traitor’ shouldn’t they be doing something other than writing a stupid letter?
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
bad-hair 1/18/2021 2:10:51 PM (No. 665171)
Hah !!! Fools !!! Don't they realize that we've all got our double top secret decoder rings and a fresh set of AAA bats.
Trump Derangement Syndrome Yields to Biden Dementia Syndrome. Pick up fresh batteries free at any Trump Hotel lobby.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 1/18/2021 2:11:27 PM (No. 665173)
Interesting - the link to the actual letter does not work. Perhaps some remorse here.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
moebellini3 1/18/2021 2:12:07 PM (No. 665175)
Totally unhinged. PRESIDENT TRUMP, the only man to stand up for the real AMERICAN workers and citizens. The only person who wanted to protect our country and keep these nasty POS communists from destroying our freedom. Now these animals are crawling out from under their sewer covers. Beware and be alert. Got it.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Avikingman 1/18/2021 2:12:28 PM (No. 665176)
Hundreds? Big deal.
There are 75 million who'd buy one, maybe 2.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/18/2021 2:17:30 PM (No. 665188)
The meanness, nastiness, and hatred of the Democrats is on full display. Mitch McConnell, McCarthy, and Liz Cheney have joined this group, deciding to leave those of us who are American patriots, who tell us that we are violent, and should be silent, not complain when our liberty, or elections are stolen. Regards to McConnell and McCarthy and Cheney. Really appreciate your support of the leader of the Republican Party, because that is the kind of support you can look forward to. We are right there, a thousand miles behind you, and the distance is growing exponentially.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 1/18/2021 2:23:35 PM (No. 665201)
What say YOU , Amazon?
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
mizzmac 1/18/2021 2:34:45 PM (No. 665219)
This is funny. Unlike books by the Obamas and Jim Comey that no one reads, a Trump memoir of his 4 years of hell in Washington DC would actually sell and make a publisher a ton of money. Authors w/ 75,000,000 followers don't need traditional publishers as much as traditional publishers (and agents) need them.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Californian 1/18/2021 2:42:38 PM (No. 665228)
This is very efficient. Burn the books before they're even published! Bravo for thinking ahead! Orwell is turning in his grave. Wait until these cretins discover Orwell also wrote Animal Farm and what that means to them as the pigs send them to the glue factory.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
TAzer 1/18/2021 2:49:10 PM (No. 665232)
Alarm, Anger, Attack, Ban, Banish, Burn, Censor, Cut, Cleanse, Dismiss, Dictate, Deplatform, Expel, Erase, Expunge...... On and on and on the Left fires through the alphabet, seeking to fill in all gaps in the program to make AmeriSoc triumphant.... but how, exactly, is this consistent with our Constitution? With the Bill of Rights? It ain't. ... Welcome to Post-Constitutional America.
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Trump's memoirs, if he ever bothers to have them written, would be a mega best seller. My understanding is that Regnery will publish them.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 1/18/2021 2:53:22 PM (No. 665237)
Nah. 250? It's just another day in the business. Do the math. Why so few? The book will be a best seller.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Jebediah 1/18/2021 2:54:27 PM (No. 665239)
I am a reader and buyer of books and had already vowed NEVER top buy another Simon & Schuster book, and now I have more houses and people to add to the list. Do these people not know of the last Amendment of the Constitution? They can simply not buy a Trump book, but blocking the rest of us...........? Meanwhile the multi millionaire Obama's book has been #1 on the Journal and other book lists, largely I am sure because it is being bought and distributed by the Party and acolytes........... I am beyond disgusted. The truth has no place for these people: OBAMA put kids in cages (largely to protect them, I assume) but TRUMP is castigated....I can to on and on. I will NEVER buy a book from these publishers, and it galls me that Netflix gave Obama a fortune for a crappy film.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
Jebediah 1/18/2021 2:57:23 PM (No. 665243)
To Poster #12, the Press would have to actually comment on the Biden mess, and they won't. They dirndl;t care about Benghazi, they allowed Hillary to make them stand outside of rope lines while she paraded down, and Biden lived in his basement for a year, answering nothing. They blocked the Hunter Biden story entirely and even now you hear virtually nothing, while we have to watch Plugs lecture us on integrity! The Press will protect, and people will be too stupid or lazy to notice.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 1/18/2021 3:14:26 PM (No. 665260)
Who said he was going to write a book? If Trump just went to Florida and focused on his business interests, these people would look like the fools they are. I think he should take six months or so off, let the furor die down, fight the inevitable legal fights, and then decide what he wants to do.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 1/18/2021 3:50:33 PM (No. 665288)
These people that signed this letter is mentally deranged individuals.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/18/2021 4:00:31 PM (No. 665297)
To those of us who dabble in the field, it is common knowledge that 95% of publishers and agents have gone over to the dark loony-left side. One can see only liberal offerings on the shelves because conservative writers can only get a book to the public through self-publishing. Not a surprise here.
Like the entertainment industry, they are too stupid to realize that alienating half of your audience is going to close down half of your businesses. When you see Michelle Obama on the top shelf, it's a sure indication that what follows is even worse.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
JL80863 1/18/2021 4:03:46 PM (No. 665304)
Sponsored by the Biden Crime Family.
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
BarryNo 1/18/2021 4:04:28 PM (No. 665305)
Why burn books, when you can simply censor them before pubication.?
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
Bmoc 1/18/2021 4:21:04 PM (No. 665311)
I wrote a 'dystopian novel' back in late 2012 and it is almost an Audible book now. Over the last few years, my book has disappeared along with all of the five star ratings. When I raise havoc over it, they put it back up without the ratings. This last time, the story had 22 five star ratings and one four star rating. Guess which rating was left when it was taken down again and then re-published? I am 45,000 words into an updated 'Part Two' of the story based on the Trump years, but I am more than a little afraid that they will take down all of my forty+ books and take away my income that keeps able to survive.
We live in scary times.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
ragu 1/18/2021 4:25:40 PM (No. 665316)
President Trump is a billionaire. If he wants to write a book, he should just self-publish it. I'm sure many of the 75 million angry voters would buy it.
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
ragu 1/18/2021 4:29:35 PM (No. 665318)
I apologize for second post. Forgot to say that I agree with posters above.
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POTUS can self publish any book and cut out the publisher or middleman/woman/xir.
He could sell it on his own website.. could avoid Amazon.
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
TJ54 1/18/2021 5:16:52 PM (No. 665346)
what goes around, comes around.
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
bobn.t 1/18/2021 5:37:06 PM (No. 665362)
To the brit fools: go pound sand.
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Reply 58 - Posted by:
Mike22 1/18/2021 9:30:35 PM (No. 665616)
There once was a company called Loompanics. They published books the establishment really didn't like. Bad things that might interfere with the establishment of the sacred new world order. Scary things like books on explosives, arguments for limited government and even anarchy. Today there is no need for a book to be on a physical medium. If it is written, it can be published. If the New American master race, headquarters in silicon valley stops it here there are places that still support free speech. I personally would choose Poland, they love Trump, they resist the European globalists and is planning to make the kind of commercial censorship the self-annointed tech leaders so love illegal. Get a good VPN so that when the new administration chooses to protect us from sinister pro-freedom foreign influences by blocking freedom observing websites, your reading choices can continue without interference.
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Reply 59 - Posted by:
beancounter 1/20/2021 7:10:43 AM (No. 667373)
Wow. Banning books. How Nazi of them.
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Comments:
The Marxist gatekeepers in the unimedia's book publishing arm are so effective that it's difficult to find current books that are not rife with the left's favorite themes, with even children's books filled with blatant homosexual themes. They say blacklisting and banishment are signs of a healthy society as appropriate, while also convincing the New American populace that Republicans are fascists.