US pub houses obeying in advance?
First time commenting here, so apologies if this content is wrong.
Andrew Lownie said that his #1 bestseller Entitled was purchased by Collins in the UK, and Simon & Schuster in the US. Lownie said that Collins required few changes to the manuscript, whereas S&S labelled the work "unreadable" and dropped it in the US, so Lownie did a self-pub here.
For those who haven't read Entitled, it's a biography of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor & Sarah Ferguson, and dips a fair bit into their relationship with Epstein; the Trumps are also mentioned. It's a rather scandalous read and surely would've been a bestseller in the US.
Over the past ~18 months, I've heard of a few times that publishers have dropped books which the Administration may dislike - publishers seem to provide vague excuses for these cancellations, excuses which don't pass muster. For some reason I never clocked what was going on until I heard Lownie lay it out.
Are American publishing houses obeying in advance? It seems rather rich for S&S to have a Read Banned Books initiative, if they are banning books in order to please the very people oppressing First Amendment Rights?
Would love to know what the deal is from people who actually know; I'm just a bozo who knows nothing about publishing, but loves books.
Thanks for your time & for all you do.