Simon & Schuster president and ceo Jonathan Karp wrote a letter to employees on Friday, explaining the publisher’s decision not to distribute Post Hill Press’ forthcoming book by Louisville police officer Jonathan Mattingly, one of the officers who shot Breonna Taylor. Karp writes that S&S first became aware of the title through news reports beginning around noon on Thursday, and had “no prior knowledge of the book and had not been informed by our distribution partner that it was in the works.” “By last night we had decided that we could not distribute this book,” he continues, “and after informing […]