Kobo Doesn't Want You To Read This Book

Canadian novelist Nowick Gray wrote in a recent Substack article:

...today’s rant concerns the banning of my book, Covid Narrative Freedom, from Canada’s leading ebook retailer, Kobo.... [They] informed me that the book “failed our COVID review. Unfortunately, it was determined that the content regarding COVID-19 does not meet our review guidelines and thus cannot be published.”

Well, that made me immediately go and look up my own dissident book, Much Ado About Corona: A Dystopian Love Story, on Kobo. I must admit I felt a little offended to see that it was not banned along with Nowick Gray's. Alas, I think they realize it looks downright Orwellian to ban fictional literature.

"For all of Amazon’s well-deserved criticism," writes Nowick, "[COVID Narrative Freedom: Two Years of Dissent] is still available for sale there (and also at Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Google)."

Grab a copy while free speech lasts.

—John C. A. Manley

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