American booksellers and Amazon has hotted up this week, with the booksellers joining together to announce that they will not be selling any of the titles published by the online retailer.The opening salvo was fired last week by America's biggest book chain Barnes & Noble, when it announced that it would not be stocking Amazon Publishing's books.
from Alison Flood: The Guardian: Amazon Publishing bookshop boycott grows
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The Booker prize-winning author Ben Okri has damned his editor's claim to have rewritten the dialogue in one of his books as "monstrous, and indeed suspect".
Okri was responding to an interview in the Telegraph in which the poet and editor Robin Robertson said that he had "redone" some of the Lagos patois in the Nigerian author Okri's Stars of the New Curfew, a short story collection published over 20 years ago in 1988.
from Alison Flood: The Guardian: Ben Okri erupts at editor over 'rewriting' claim
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The author believes "the appetite for censorship is growing in India", she said. With Rushdie prevented by fears of violence from attending or even speaking via video link at the Jaipur event in January, Nasrin says we are witnessing "the disturbing victory of Islamic gangsters" in Jaipur and Kolkata. "I am wondering how to stop this growing cancer from spreading," she said.
Like Rushdie, Nasrin also suspects her book launch did not represent a genuine security threat.
from Alison Flood: The Guardian: Taslima Nasrin attacks 'cancer' of censorship in Indian society
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