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Woody Allen recently returned to the news after publisher Hachette announced it would publish the filmmaker’s forthcoming memoir with the most Woody Allen title of all time–Apropos of Nothing–in April. Hachette pulled that memoir on Friday after publishing industry employees staged a protest amid continued allegations of Allen’s sexual abuse of his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow in the 1990s.

In a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, a representative for Hachette said, “The decision to cancel Mr. Allen’s book was a difficult one. At HBG we take our relationships with authors very seriously, and do not cancel books lightly. We have published and will continue to publish many challenging books. As publishers, we make sure every day in our work that different voices and conflicting points of views can be heard. Also, as a company, we are committed to offering a stimulating, supportive and open work environment for all our staff. Over the past few days, HBG leadership had extensive conversations with our staff and others. After listening, we came to the conclusion that moving forward with publication would not be feasible for HBG.”

Ronan Farrow, Allen’s son with Mia Farrow and one of the journalists who broke the Harvey Weinstein story, released a statement on Twitter that criticized Hachette, who published his 2019 book Catch and Kill, and severed all ties with the publishing giant. In solidarity with Farrow and to protest the memoir’s publication, dozens of Hachette employees, along with their colleagues across the industry, walked out on Friday afternoon.

1. Hachette Book Group on Friday dropped its plans to publish Woody Allen’s autobiography and said it would return all rights to the author, a day after its employees protested its deal with the.
2. Woody Allen’s memoir has been dropped by Hachette, just four days after initial news of the upcoming release surprised and infuriated different corners of the publishing world.On Friday.

Just four days after Hachette Book Group announced it would publish Woody Allen's autobiography Apropos of Nothing, the publisher has backtracked on its decision.Hachette announced Friday it has.

75 plus employees of Hachette are standing in solidarity with @ronanfarrow, @realdylanfarrow and survivors of sexual assault and walked out of the Hachette offices today in protest of Woody Allen’s memoir. #HachetteWalkout#LittleBrownWalkoutpic.twitter.com/wTNi3c7gy8

— Kendra Barkoff Lamy (@kabarkoff) March 5, 2020

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In response, Ronan and Dylan Farrow shared their gratitude for the Hachette employees’ efforts and for the company’s decision to cancel Allen’s memoir:

I’m grateful to all the Hachette employees and authors who spoke up and to the company for listening.

— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) March 6, 2020

Many on and off Twitter celebrated the decision, seen as siding with survivors of sexual violence instead of powerful abusers:

Woody Allen has every right and ability to self publish this memoir if he so chooses.

He does not, however, have a right to a major publishing house deal.

This is not censorship, and some of y’all need to stop acting like it is. https://t.co/c0E5RwWpGJ

— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) March 6, 2020

Meanwhile, others fear what the book’s cancellation says about censorship in the U.S.

What a joke. Imagine running a business like this — making a decision to publish a book and then reversing it because some of your staff throw a tantrum. https://t.co/pXZpCaWtAn

— Damon Linker (@DamonLinker) March 6, 2020

In particular, author Stephen King said in a Tweet, “The Hachette decision to drop the Woody Allen book makes me very uneasy. It’s not him; I don’t give a damn about Mr. Allen. It’s who gets muzzled next that worries me.” He continued later, “Let me add that it was fucking tone-deaf of Hachette to want to publish Woody Allen’s book after publishing Ronan Farrow’s.”

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• March 24, 2020

Ronan Farrow, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on allegations of sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein helped spark the #MeToo movement, said Tuesday that he will no longer work with Hachette Book Group because it is publishing a memoir by Woody Allen, his father.

Allen’s autobiography, titled Apropos of Nothing, is slated to be published on April 7 by Hachette’s Grand Central imprint. It is described as a “comprehensive account” of Allen’s personal and professional life, in which he “writes of his relationships with family, friends, and the loves of his life.” Grand Central Publishing did not immediately respond to TIME’s request for comment on Wednesday.

Allen’s adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, has long accused him of molesting her in 1992, when she was 7. Allen has denied the allegations.

On Monday, Dylan Farrow called Hachette’s role in publishing Allen’s memoir “deeply upsetting to me personally and an utter betrayal of my brother whose brave reporting, capitalized on by Hachette, gave voice to numerous survivors of sexual assault by powerful men.”

Ronan Farrow’s book, Catch and Kill, was published in October by the Little, Brown imprint of Hachette. The book exposed abuses by powerful men and the network that helped silence their victims. It spent 11 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list.

“I was disappointed to learn through press reports that Hachette, my publisher, acquired Woody Allen’s memoir after other major publishers refused to do so and concealed the decision from me and its own employees while we were working on Catch and Kill — a book about how powerful men, including Woody Allen, avoid accountability for sexual abuse,” Ronan Farrow said in a statement on Tuesday.

He criticized Hachette for allegedly not fact-checking Allen’s memoir, saying it was “wildly unprofessional in multiple obvious directions for Hachette to behave this way.”

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Hachette has not commented publicly on whether the book was fact checked, though fact checking is not a standard practice in the publishing industry. That has become the subject of debate in the past year, due to a few high-profile incidents of inaccuracy in published books.

“It also shows a lack of ethics and compassion for victims of sexual abuse, regardless of any personal connection or breach of trust here,” Ronan Farrow said. “I’ve also told Hachette that a publisher that would conduct itself in this way is one I can’t work with in good conscience.”

Although Dylan Farrow first accused Allen of molesting her more than two decades ago, the Hollywood director has faced more scrutiny in recent years, in part due to the cultural reckoning caused by the #MeToo movement. Several celebrities, including actors Mira Sorvino and Rebecca Hall, have since said they regretted working with Allen and apologized to Dylan Farrow.

In an interview with the New York Times on Tuesday, Hachette CEO Michael Pietsch said the two books were published by different Hachette imprints, which aim not to interfere with one another’s publishing decisions. “Each book has its own mission,” he told the Times. “Our job as a publisher is to help the author achieve what they have set out to do in the creation of their book.”

In an email to Pietsch that was reported by the Times, Ronan Farrow criticized that defense.

“Your policy of editorial independence among your imprints does not relieve you of your moral and professional obligations as the publisher of Catch and Kill, and as the leader of a company being asked to assist in efforts by abusive men to whitewash their crimes,” he wrote.

“As you and I worked on Catch and Kill — a book in part about the damage Woody Allen did to my family — you were secretly planning to publish a book by the person who committed those acts of sexual abuse.”

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