Hachette employees stage a walk-out over Woody Allen's memoir

[inkstainedlips]

BREAKING: Employees at the Little, Brown imprint of Hachette Book Group have staged a walk-out in protest of the company’s acquisition of Woody Allen's forthcoming memoir. This story is developing.
- Publishers Weekly (@PublishersWkly) March 5, 2020
In a follow up to Hachette secretly deciding to publish Woody Allen's memoir while working with Ronan

Comments

[deja_vu822]

That's awesome. Kudos to those 75 people for taking a stand.

Relatedly, I've been wanting to buy Catch and Kill for awhile and I still want to read it but I don't want to give money to Hatchette? Not sure what to do tbh.

[merci_beaucoup]

Maybe take it out at the library?

[vomited]

buy it second hand! half.com

[mistycreed]

Get it from the library. It's very likely they have a copy, I know it's had high circulation in the tiny system where I work.

[oblivious_frog]

Good for them! Proud of those employees for standing up to the company.

[petecarl]

Good for them!

[milfordacademy]

Does this mean they quit their jobs? Or is it a protest?

[masterofmystery]

staged a walk-out in protest

[milfordacademy]

Ok, English isn’t my first language so I asked bc I didn’t understand. Just repeating what it says on the post doesn’t help so thanks for nothing. I’m asking if they walked out of their jobs in protest or if it’s just symbolic

[justleilah]

It was a protest, they left their jobs mid-day (afternoon) and 'walked out'. While they didn't quit, what they did is more than just symbolic because they stopped working and took to the streets. It's also a pretty brave thing to do in a dying industry (publishing), in the era of global social media. Their action sure made a statement though! It's amazing Hachette backed down from publishing the book, in large part thanks to this...

[analievelyn]

This solidarity is a nice refresher after the bill clinton interview/comments.