Has Publishing Gone Woke?
28th November 2020
The debate seems to pit two mutually exclusive sides against one another. In the red corner are the 70 employees of the company who have sent anonymous messages to their superiors begging that Peterson’s book not be released and denouncing him as a peddler of hateful bombast. And in the blue corner are Peterson and his publishers, who sold over three million copies of 12 Rules for Life worldwide. It would be politically expedient simply to throw in the towel and cancel publication of Beyond Order, but financially disastrous, not least because Penguin Random House know that another publishing house would pick up the book immediately and make a great deal of money out of it.