![]() ![]() Publishers Weeklyhas released the full text of an August 5th email to ABA members from CEO Allison Hill explaining how the events happened and outlining ABA’s planned response. Now, after that false start of an apology, the ABA has released the findings of an internal review they conducted after these two incidents. Then, as part of their July “white box” promotional mailing, they mailed 750 bookstores a copy of freelance journalist Abigail Shrier’s scientifically inaccurate book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters when booksellers reacted poorly, the ABA apologized on Twitter, and when the statement was ill-received, they deleted it and locked their account. Firstly, the ABA mixed up two books by Black authors with the title Blackout, displaying information about the romance anthology Blackout next to the cover of Blackout by conservative commentator Candace Owens. This July, the American Booksellers Association was enmeshed in two sizable controversies. ![]()
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