Thursday, November 17, 2005

GOODNIGHT SMOKING: HarperCollins has digitally removed the cigarette in Clement Hurd's author photo in the back of Goodnight Moon, and a minor kerfuffle has ensued.

One bookseller calls it "a censorship tactic most famously associated with Joseph Stalin, who falsified the archival record of the Soviet Union by literally removing images of his political enemies from photographs in an effort to recreate history in his own image," but, seriously? The money that went into building that website could've been spent buying children's books to donate to public libraries.

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