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  • Simon and Schuster cancel Milo’s book

    Book publisher Simon and Schuster have dropped Milo Yiannopoulos forthcoming book, Dangerous after a huge online protest.

    Milo Yiannopoulos

    Taking to his Facebook account yesterday, controversial right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos confirmed that the publisher of his book, an imprint of Simon And Schuster, has dropped it. It reportedly paid him $250,000 for the rights to his book.

    The decision was made after comments over child abuse caused outrage online.

    A statement from the publisher said, “After careful consideration, Simon & Schuster and its Threshold Editions imprint have cancelled publication of Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos.”

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    The book was due to be released in June after been pushed back from a March drop date and had topped the Amazon book chart after its release was announced.

    There was outrage online after Milo seemingly endorsed sex between “younger boys” and older men, which he made during an online live stream interview. The interview was edited and distributed on Twitter and YouTube.

    According to The Guardian Milo said the age of consent was “not this black and white thing” and that relationships “between younger boys and older men … can be hugely positive experiences”.

    In another video, which is available to see on YouTube, Milo said that at the age of 14 he was the predator and “aggressively seeking out sexual company of adults” to have “power” over them.

    Milo took to his Facebook to say he was disgusted by the video and that he was a “child abuse victim” and that he is “horrified by paedophilia”. He made the claim that videos of him were edited “deceptively”.

    He wrote,

    “I’m partly to blame.

    “My own experiences as a victim led me to believe I could say anything I wanted to on this subject, no matter how outrageous.

    “But I understand that my usual blend of British sarcasm, provocation and gallows humor might have come across as flippancy, a lack of care for other victims or, worse, “advocacy.” I deeply regret that. People deal with things from their past in different ways.”

    He told his fans that he was “implacably opposed” to the normalisation of paedophilia and would continue to speak out against it.

     

     

  • Roxane Gay pulls her forthcoming book from same publisher as Milo Yiannopoulos

    Roxane Gay pulls her forthcoming book from same publisher as Milo Yiannopoulos

    Author Roxane Gay has decided not to have her book published by the same publisher as Milo Yiannopoulos.

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    The Bad Feminist writer, Roxanne Gay has decided to ditch Simon & Schuster as her forthcoming book’s publisher over a decision by another of their imprints to publish Milo Yiannopoulos’s forthcoming book, Dangerous, which is due out in March 2017.

    How To Be Heard was due to be published by TED Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster in March 2018. Speaking to Buzzfeed News, Roxane said that she asked her agent, Maria Massie to “pull the project” last week saying that she couldn’t in “good conscience” let them publish the book, whilst they also had the rights to Milo’s book.

    She said she was putting her “money where her mouth is”.

    “I kept thinking about how egregious it is to give someone like Milo a platform for his blunt, inelegant hate and provocation. I just couldn’t bring myself to turn the book in. My editor emailed me last week and I kept staring at that email in my inbox and finally over the weekend I asked my agent to pull the book.”

    Simon & Schuster’s CEO claimed that Milo’s book would not contain hate speech.

    The book has not found another publisher yet.

     

  • The Chicago Review of Books announces it will not review any Simon Schuster books in 2017 because of Milo Yiannopoulos

    The Chicago Review of Books announces it will not review any Simon Schuster books in 2017 because of Milo Yiannopoulos

    The Chicago Review of Books has said it will not review any products published by publisher Simon & Schuster in 2017.

    Milo Yiannopoulos

    The publisher Simon & Schuster is facing a huge backlash after it was revealed that it was publishing a book by the controversial conservative figurehead, Milo Yiannopoulos. Taking to Twitter, The Chicago Review of Books, an “independent literary review dedicated to cultivating awareness”, said that it’s decision to boycott the publisher was in response to the “disgusting validation of hate”. They said they would not cover a single book of the publisher in 2017.

    The book, Dangerous, is being released by an imprint, Threshold Editions, owned by one of the world’s biggest publishers. The book deal offered to Milo is reported to be worth $250,000 and has told critics,”withhold judgment until they have had a chance to read” the book.

    Within a day Milo had cracked the top 100 Amazon best seller list ahead of The Princess Diaries by Carrie Fisher.

    The book reviewer reviewed 15 books by the publisher last year and that it would in 2017 review 15 books from independent and small publishers.

     

  • Milo is releasing a book and it’s already a Number 1 best seller at Amazon

    Milo Yiannopoulos is releasing a book and it’s already a “best seller”.

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    The conservative figure Milo Yiannopoulos is about to release a book and it’s already a best-seller on Amazon’s website. The book is being released by an imprint owned by one of the world’s biggest publishers, Simon & Schuster. The book deal offered to Milo is reported to be worth $250,000 and has told critics,”withhold judgment until they have had a chance to read” the book.

    It is called Dangerous and it’s due to be released on the 14th March.

    Taking to Instagram the controversial journalist, who writes for Breibart News, explained,

    “ON NO ACCOUNT SHOULD YOU BUY COPIES OF THIS BOOK FOR THE FEMINIST IN YOUR LIFE THEREBY PROPELLING IT TO #1 BESTSELLER STATUS ENSURING A LIFETIME OF TRIGGERING FOR EVERY FEMINIST AND PROGRESSIVE LUNATIC ON THE INTERNET PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS IT WOULD BE WRONG PS HERE IS THE LINK”

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BOpxKbLA-_s/?taken-by=milo.yiannopoulos&hl=en

    Within a day Milo had cracked the top 100 Amazon best seller list ahead of The Princess Diaries by Carrie Fisher.

    Earlier this year the self-proclaimed, super villain of the internet had a scheduled talk at a school cancelled after the school was contacted by the Department for Education’s (DfE) “counter-extremism unit” after concerns about safety were called into question. Around 220 students had signed up to hear Milo speak. A spokesperson for the school noted that, “the staff and students of the school were overwhelmingly in favour”, of Milo’s visit.