8 March 2021: COVID Nursing Home Deaths Scandal Derails Promotion of Cuomo Pandemic Leadership Book

Publisher Halts Promotion of Cuomo Book, Citing Nursing Homes Inquiry

This article indicates Crown Publishing Group is coming to terms with the bad press it is now getting for what has proved to be a very bad business decision.

The publisher of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's book on his leadership during the pandemic said it had stopped promoting the title because of an inquiry into the withholding of data on the deaths of nursing home residents. Sales of the book, "American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic," had already dramatically slowed as the governor found himself embroiled in overlapping crises of his own making, including a drumbeat of accusations about his inappropriate behavior toward younger women and his aides' manipulation of nursing home data.

Gillian Blake of Crown Publishing Group said in response to an email from The New York Times that there were "no plans" to reprint Mr. Cuomo's book or to reissue it in paperback, citing "the ongoing investigation into N.Y.S. reporting of Covid-related fatalities in nursing homes."

Notice the focus on COVID-19 nursing home fatalities and no mention of sexual harassment claims in the publisher's justification to not issue a paperback version? They consider one of these scandals to present more of a negative risk to their business than the others.