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Penguin Random House is the latest publisher to feel the burn from a marquee author’s reputational flame-out

August 11, 2021June 14, 2022
by Steven Beattie

Publishers are increasingly relying on morals clauses to shield them from blowback should an author’s bad behaviour become public scandal.

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