Comments | anidada: Um. NO.

anidada

Um. NO.

Oct 27, 2009 14:29

Via mzrowan's news post:

Scholastic asks author to censor book, refuses to include it in their book fairs because one of the characters has two moms. The author, thankfully, is standing her ground on that point, but she did take out words Scholastic deemed offensive ( Read more... )

asshaberdashery, censorship

Comments 9

velvetpage October 27 2009, 20:43:55 UTC

Oh, SHIT. I spend a fortune at Scholastic. In fact I have more than a hundred dollars' worth of bonus coupons to spend there before the end of December.

I think it's time for a flurry of emails to find out if it's worth it to them to keep my business.

Also, this appears to be the American branch of the company. The Canadian branch is separate, with a separate catalogue. I'm not sure how closely they're connected, but I'll do some digging and find out.

anidada October 27 2009, 20:54:14 UTC

I'll be interested to see what the Canadian branch has to say, please let me know. Additionally, there is a petition here.

velvetpage October 27 2009, 21:01:39 UTC

I will let you know. My customer info is all at school and I'm not back there until Monday (apparently grandfathers are considered immediate family and net me three days off) so it'll be a few days before I can get on this complete with my customer number.

velvetpage October 27 2009, 20:46:25 UTC

As an aside, I don't mind the censoring of words like "crap" anywhere near as much. I would consider doing it if I didn't feel it would harm the integrity of the story and characters. But censoring based on having two moms? No. Way. In. Hell.

anidada October 27 2009, 20:58:25 UTC

The way I see it, if the book is good enough to be considered for Scholastic at all, then it should be listed in its original state. It's like how Blockbuster has been known to censor the movies they rent, and how Amazon hampers queer and sex-positive product listings. It's appalling.

ex_jaemin November 5 2009, 10:31:56 UTC

Velvet, I LOVE your icon! That's freaking genius!

velvetpage November 5 2009, 11:12:46 UTC

I stole it from somewhere, so feel free to steal it from me. :)

dendritejungle October 27 2009, 22:10:59 UTC

That's really disappointing. :(

ex_jaemin November 5 2009, 10:31:34 UTC

What a load of crap!

And to think that I used to love Scholastic books as a kid. Hell, it was one area where I could get my parents to shell out money! Bastards!