Last month the University of Michigan Press officially notified client Pluto Books that their distribution contract will be terminated at the end of the year. Pluto’s controversial book Overcoming Zionism had sparked a series of investigations and protests over Michigan’s relationship with the UK house. Pluto is the only distribution client being dropped by the press. In this case, the press is citing new guidelines that “say that the UM Press will distribute books only from publishers whose missions and processes of peer review were reasonably similar to its own,” the Ann Arbor News reports. So chairwoman of the press’s […]
