Posted on 03/02/2021 6:18:39 PM PST by EdnaMode
Classic Dr. Seuss books are flying off the shelves at Amazon after the late author’s publisher moved to stop printing six titles containing “hurtful” imagery, driving up sales for one work by a staggering 5.7 million percent.
A decision by Dr. Seuss Enterprises to scrap the six books on Tuesday over what it called “hurtful and wrong” stereotypes appears to have sparked a buying frenzy on the e-retail giant, with the defunct ‘McElligot's Pool’ surging to the top spot on Amazon’s “Movers & Shakers” section. At the time of writing, the page showed that sales for the book were up by 5,785,593 percent over the last 24 hours, while ‘If I Ran the Zoo’ – another nixed work – was up by more than 835,000 percent.
Seuss also dominated Amazon’s “Best Sellers in Books” category, taking eight of the top 10 slots, including several books not swept up in the publisher’s printing ban, which also applied to ‘And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,’ ‘On Beyond Zebra!,’ ‘Scrambled Eggs Super!,’ and ‘The Cat's Quizzer.’
Though the beloved children’s author – born Theodor Seuss Geisel – became a household name with titles like ‘The Cat in the Hat’ and ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas!,’ some of his works have come under fire for racial caricatures and stereotypes, namely many of the cartoons he drew in support of the Second World War.
However, the publisher declined to give a rationale for each book pulled on Tuesday, leaving the decision somewhat unclear, given that some of them contain few depictions of people or none at all.
One of Seuss’s step-daughters, Lark Grey Dimond-Cates, pushed back on the allegations of bigotry on Tuesday, telling the New York Post “there wasn’t a racist bone in that man’s body. He was so acutely aware of the world around him and cared so much.”
She added that it was nonetheless a “wise” move to cease printing the six books, saying “This is just a very difficult, painful time that we live in” and “we don’t want to upset anybody.”
However, another of the author’s step-daughters, Leagrey Dimond, disagreed, arguing that instead of canceling publication of the books outright, they should simply receive disclaimers explaining the controversial content.
Shows this snowflake publisher, ‘the consumer is king!’
I had no idea eggs of color were so thin-skinned.
The world has gone upside down.
[[[She added that it was nonetheless a “wise” move to cease printing the six books, saying “This is just a very difficult, painful time that we live in” and “we don’t want to upset anybody.”]]]
That’s it, throw in the towel to the cancel bots. Guess what, there won’t be a day that goes by that you don’t upset anybody in this current nut house we live in.
Wow. Ms Diamond-Cates sounds like a real profile in courage. A fierce warrior for free speech
How does one arrive at 5,785,593 percent? From what basis?
lol
Marketing 101 - How stimulate sales
I do not like them burning books
I do not like their dirty looks
I do not like the lies they tell
The tales they sell, their words from hell
I do not think them very wise
To tell the children all those lies
To make them take a load of sin
For just the color of their skin
I think it's time to tell them "NO!"
That it's a place they cannot go.
Just think the cancel culture is driven by big tech and bots/fake people. This is how our society is crumbling and how the last election was very easily stolen.
Yes, it's a great idea to reward the snowflake publisher that made this ridiculous decision with massive sales. They're making more money than ever! What lesson, exactly, do you expect them to learn from this?
I cannot tell you how or why
I cannot tell you the height of the sky
I cannot tell you what or when
I cannot tell you from a hen
Indeed
It is neither here nor there
Numbers are from everywhere
Just make them up to break the tedium
And one day you will be a Fake News Medium
Yes indeed.
Oh, to be a fly on the wall of the Whaling Bar of the La Valencia in the 1950s and listen to Ted Geisel and Raymond Chandler chat through the evening.
NICELY DONE!
Yep
I was reading BEFORE I ever went to kindergarten. Why? A definite part of the answer is my Dr. Seuss books. I learned to read from my Dr. Seuss books. To deny these wonderfully imaginative books to kids is another loop of mind control. I could not get enough of the wondrous creatures Seuss dreamed up.
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