In a statement last week, Trump, 75, said he “turned down two book deals, from the most unlikely of publishers”, which he did not name. But the former vice-president’s deal also caused problems for Simon & Schuster, when staff members said the company should not promote bigotry. But The Tyranny of Big Tech was picked up by Regnery, a rightwing publisher – and distributed by Simon & Schuster. On Tuesday, Politico reported that senior figures at Penguin Random House, Hachette, Harper Collins, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster said they would not touch a Trump book. “That doesn’t mean I won’t accept them sometime in the future, as I have started writing the book,” he said.

Source: The Guardian June 15, 2021 14:26 UTC