A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss

We donate money, public space and our heart to causes on a daily basis.”Ĭhronicle’s president Tyrrell Mahoney apologised to independent booksellers, telling them: “We had to ensure that the book was a complete surprise for the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver audience,” and so “ultimately agreed to make the book available for purchase at the time of the on-air surprise by allocating a percentage of the print run to Amazon and making the rest of the first print run available to all our other retailers as soon as possible”.īut independents told Publishers Weekly that they were used to respecting embargos, and would have kept the secret. “These stores, in the tradition of gay and lesbian bookstores that are now nearly extinct, tirelessly work to promote a range of issues from freedom of speech, women’s rights, immigration issues, diversity – I can go on. “I am a gay man who co-owns an independent bookstore,” he wrote.

In an open letter, the Golden Notebook Bookstore in Woodstock’s owner James Conrad called the Amazon-only release “a slap in the face”. “I didn’t even know there was a vice-presidential bunny,” New Hampshire bookseller Laura Cummings, owner of White Birch Books in North Conway, told the magazine. Booksellers told US book trade magazine Publishers Weekly that they had not been informed about the title. 01:01 John Oliver's gay rabbit book parody outsells Mike Pence's original on Amazon – videoīut beleaguered independents in America have slammed the late-night television show host’s decision to point viewers towards Amazon for purchase when initially announcing the surprise publication.

A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss