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Re:Banned by the Publisher by mikeash on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @05:27PM (#11076642)
They did ask him to change it. And the "punishment" was just to not publish him. Hardly severe, given the large number of other publishers available, and now the pretty good option of going without a publisher altogether.

"Publisher asks author to change book" hardly seems worthy of attention.

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Re:Banned by the Publisher by chc on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @05:29PM (#11076655)
According to the author, they had already killed the book before they even sent him any notes. That seems to be the biggest part of what he found so upsetting.
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Re:Banned by the Publisher by mikeash on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @08:23PM (#11077623)
The book was removed from the schedule, but I imagine it could have been reinstated (reschedule?) if the requested changes had been made. Certainly a dick move by the publisher if it went down like that, but the choice to change the offending section seems to have been there.
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