More than a dozen Dr. Seuss books have made their way to Amazon’s bestsellers chart after the main publisher stopped producing the books due to concerns over “offensive” and “racist” imagery.
As of Tuesday afternoon, 13 of the top 20 bestselling books listed on Amazon were written by Dr. Seuss, according to Variety.
Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the company that publishes books written by author Theodor Seuss “Ted” Geisel, announced Tuesday that it would no longer produce several Dr. Seuss titles because the books “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.”
The company said it has listened to concerns from readers over the years who have expressed concern that some monkey-like characters in If I Ran the Zoo and a Chinese character in And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street were too offensive to print.
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The run on Dr. Seuss books also caused a surge in pricing on Amazon and on eBay, where some of his writings now cost between $5,000 and $20,000.
Many social media users, primarily conservatives, have taken issue with the decision to stop publishing the books, making the case that the removal amounts to “cancel culture.”
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Conservative radio host Ben Shapiro referred to the publisher’s decision as “authoritarian idiocy,” and Donald Trump Jr. described the situation as “absolutely insane.”
