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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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 Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 5:13 pm Post subject: Indigo knows what's best for you |
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Indigo pulls magazine over Muhammad cartoons
Updated Sat. May. 27 2006 6:00 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
Canada's largest book retailer has pulled all copies of the June edition of Harper's Magazine from its shelves.
Indigo Books and Music made the decision to remove the magazine from its 260 stores because it contains reprints of 12 cartoons that sparked outrage in the Muslim world earlier this year, according to a report in The Globe and Mail.
In addition to the 12 cartoons, the article also contains five cartoons that were inspired by an Iranian newspaper that called for an international Holocaust cartoon contest.
An internal memo obtained by the Globe advised Indigo staff to tell people "the decision was made based on the fact that the content about to be published has been known to ignite demonstrations around the world."
The cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad were originally published in a Danish newspaper, and then later reprinted in several European papers.
Indigo typically carries up to 3,000 copies of Harper's on a monthly basis, representing about 11 per cent of the magazine's Canadian distribution, the Globe reported.
John MacArthur, the publisher of the magazine, told the newspaper he was "genuinely shocked" by the decision to pull the magazine. Two major U.S. book chains, Borders and Waldenbooks, are selling the June edition.
The Indigo franchise, which includes Chapters and Coles book stores, will resume sales of the magazine after June.
The company's CEO, Heather Reisman, also pulled Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf from shelves in 2001. At the time she described the book as "hate literature." |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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I remember reading a funny article by an English professor who went into Chapters big store near Queen street the day after The Life of Pi (by a Canadian) won the Booker prize. He was like "say, got the new Booker prize winner in stock?" "What book?" "The book that just won the Booker prize." "What's a booker prize?" Etc.
A sad commentary on the people who tend to work at bookstores. They seem to be the types in love with the idea of working IN a bookstore (ostensibly it's low stress, hang with the funky crowd) but not actually in love with literature. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 7:07 am Post subject: |
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Obviously, bookstores are free to sell or not sell whatever they want. But this is a particularly unfortunate decision. I've heard that Harper's analysis of the cartoons was very good.
That said, if Heather Reisman really does think that selling the magazine will lead to violence guess I can sorta understand her decision. But she's gonna look pretty silly if the magazine sells elsewhere in North America without incident. |
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