Simon and Schuster have, through their imprint Threshold, signed a $250,000 book deal with Milo Yiannopoulos, former Twitter abuser and current editor at the notorious alt-right news platform Breitbart.

The response from concerned citizens was immediate, but muddled. While reviewers and bookstores have promised to ignore anything published by S&S, that takes little away from Yiannopoulos while potentially causing a lot of harm to authors with voices we actually need to hear, and with messages that aren't about hate and division. The only way to let S&S know for sure that the problem is with Yiannopoulos and their tacit support of his racist, hateful ideas is to directly affect them via HIS book, as opposed to the entire stable of S&S titles. 

And so we call upon Amazon, the "world's largest bookstore" to use its clout and exercise its ability to make a moral choice: to promise not to carry Yiannopoulos' work (this book or any other) in print or electronic form. Amazon has the opportunity to stand up and say "we choose not to profit by selling hate" and, in so doing make a dramatic statement about ethics in general and about who they are as a company specifically.