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To kill a mockingbird hardcover7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Published last year, the novel was actually written before Lee’s acclaimed debut, with her decision to release it after decades of silence greeted with controversy, although allegations of elder abuse against the writer were subsequently declared unfounded. Lee died at the age of 89 on 19 February, leaving behind her the 1961 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the Pulitzer prize-winning story of lawyer Atticus Finch’s courtroom battle to save a black man accused of rape by a white woman, and its sequel Go Set a Watchman. “The disappearance of the iconic mass-market edition is very disappointing to us, especially as we understand this could force a difficult situation for schools and teachers with tight budgets who cannot afford the larger, higher priced paperback edition that will remain in the market,” said the email from Hachette, which also claimed that “more than two-thirds of the 30m copies sold worldwide since publication have been Hachette’s low-priced edition”. The Hachette edition retails for $8.99, compared to the $14.99 and $16.99 larger trade paperback editions sold by HarperCollins, and has sold over 55,000 copies since the start of the year, more than double the sales of the trade paperback editions, the New Republic reported. ![]() According to emails obtained by the New Republic, Hachette, the US publisher of the mass-market edition of To Kill a Mockingbird, informed booksellers across America on 4 March that Lee’s estate would no longer allow publication of the mass-market paperback of To Kill a Mockingbird. ![]()
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