在美好的往日,图书出版商们对他们将印什么和不印什么有非常公正的想法;因为他们的名字往往逐字地出现在成品上,他们的名声与他们的作者的名声一样存亡未卜。可是,一旦出版业使其自己变成彼此搏斗的巨头的行业,友善的、绅士般的道德规范就变得更难执行,或者,在某些人心目中,甚至更难证明是正当的。出版商们是否仍在对他们出版的图书履行审查的职责,或者,他们现在仅仅是作者与读者之间的商业渠道? In the good old days, book publishers had a very unbiased idea of ​​what they printed or not, as their names tended to appear verbatim on the finished product, their reputation as dead as their authors’ reputation. However, once the publishing industry turns itself into an industry of giants wrestling with one another, gentle, gentlemanly moral codes become more difficult to enforce or, in some people’s minds, even more difficult to justify. Are publishers still reviewing the books they publish or are they just business outlets between authors and readers?