{"id":92407,"date":"2025-08-24T00:41:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T00:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/92407\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T00:41:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T00:41:22","slug":"how-publishers-became-scared-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/92407\/","title":{"rendered":"How publishers became scared of books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">The rules of Oceania in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/culture\/2023\/08\/04\/interest-in-george-orwell-and-his-dystopian-fiction-is-high\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Orwell\u2019s \u201c1984\u201d<\/a> were clear: \u201cNot even the smallest deviation of opinion on the most unimportant subject can be tolerated.\u201d Any book that carried the wrong line \u201chad to be rectified at lightning speed\u201d. Only things that would not disturb the minds of the populace were allowed, since the \u201cbest books\u201d are \u201cthose that tell you what you know already\u201d. It is an idea that some readers took to heart: in 2022 a British university added a \u201ctrigger warning\u201d to \u201c1984\u201d, alerting readers to the presence of racism, sexism and \u201cpolitical ideas\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rules of Oceania in George Orwell\u2019s \u201c1984\u201d were clear: \u201cNot even the smallest deviation of opinion on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,569,75],"class_list":["post-92407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-culture","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}