Hachette Drops Woody Allen Memoir After Staff Walk-Out, Decision Was ‘a Difficult One’

variety.com:

A day after about 75 staffers staged a walk-out to protest the publisher’s upcoming release of Woody Allen’s memoir, Hachette Book Group has decided to drop the book, “A Propos of Nothing,” which was originally scheduled for sale in April.

Hachette is in the midst of conducting a town hall to address the decision not to publish the book, copies of which have already been printed and for which Allen has already received at least one payment, a source tells Variety. “The decision to cancel Mr.

Allen’s book was a difficult one,” said a Hachette spokesperson in a statement. “At HBG we take our relationships with authors very seriously, and do not cancel books lightly.