Publishers Weekly, Literary Twitter, And The Problem With Online Rampartism
A strange and winding tale of a dysfunctional online norm
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In late June, Publishers Weekly retracted one of its articles. Here’s how the present version of the page where the article used to live now reads in its entirety:
After review, Publishers Weekly has determined that this story about a book cancellation failed to meet our editorial standards. We have removed the story for two reasons: the failure to meet …
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