Anna Low,the owner of Potts Point Bookshop,said she would keep sellingCatch and Kill until its distributor,Hachette,told her otherwise."The publishers have done their work,you assume,"said Ms Low,who had not received any legal threats.
Hachette,which ownsCatch and Kill'spublisher Little,Brown UK,was standing by the work in the face oflegal threats from Howard,who has engaged lawyers in Australia,the United States and the United Kingdom.
Farrow,who won a Pulitzer Prize for hisNew Yorker exposé of Weinstein,said he was sorry the book was unavailable and criticised the companies that had stopped selling it.
"I hope you can import or buy from an independent bookseller,and avoid outlets that yield to these kinds of intimidation tactics,"Farrow said on Twitter.
Farrow's book refers to Howard in at least 20 separate passages. He wrote that Howard met repeatedly with Weinstein and told the entertainment heavyweight,via an email Farrow obtained,that he had unflattering information to share about an actress who had accused Weinstein of rape. Howard has denied passing along an audio recording that one of his reporters obtained about the actress.
Howard previously told Farrow he had only ever shared information with Weinstein as part of a commercial partnership that AMI had with Weinstein's company,and that it had never affected his independent editorial judgment.