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NP/CP say Indigo removing pics of Munro from stores

2024-07-17 08:21 ET - In the News

The National Post reports in its Wednesday, July 17, edition that Canada's biggest bookseller will remove enlarged photos of Alice Munro from stores, but bookstores large and small say they plan to keep her works on the shelves. A Canadian Press dispatch to the Post reports that a spokesman for Indigo Books & Music said the firm supports Alice Munro's daughter Andrea Skinner, who revealed she had been sexually abused by her stepfather, and her mother did not act. "Alice Munro's books are not in violation of our assortment policy, and we will continue to carry her books," Madison Downey said. "Images of Alice Munro appear in some of our stores, and we have determined that it is appropriate for us to remove these." Indigo's policy is to "carry all books in print" unless a book advocates for "eliminating an entire group in society," contains instructions for making weapons of mass destruction, or is child pornography. Independent bookseller Ian Elliott, owner of A Different Drummer Books in Burlington, Ont., said he briefly considered pulling Ms. Munro's books. "It crossed my mind, I have to say, but I finally said, I'm not in the business of censoring anything here," said Mr. Elliott.

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