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Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy said in a letter that the decision to publish Yiannopoulos’s book to concerned authors and promised that it will not “incite hatred, discrimination or bullying.”
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In late December, news that conservative writer and alt-right firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos had received a reported $250,000-book deal from Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, was met with outrage and criticism.
On Monday, BuzzFeed News obtained a letter from Simon & Schuster's CEO Carolyn Reidy that responds to the controversy and explains Threshold Editions' decision to publish Yiannopoulous's book Dangerous.
In the letter, Reidy writes that Simon & Schuster does not support, condone, or publish hate speech, and that Threshold Editions's decision to publish Yiannopoulous's book was editorially independent and “made without the involvement or knowledge of” other publishers at S&S.
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Reidy explains that Threshold Editions considered Yiannopoulous's book — originally intended to be an examination of issues surrounding free speech and political correctness — because it could become “incisive commentary on today's social discourse” and appeal to the imprint's conservative audience.
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