March 14, 2025, 2:05pm

Sarah Wynn-Williams’s Careless Folks: A Cautionary Story of Energy, Greed, and Misplaced Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams got here out just a few days in the past, and is already making an enormous splash. The e book is one insider’s take a look at Fb/Meta, and the way tech fats cats like Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg went off the rails. To cite the jacket copy, the e book explores “how the extra energy they grasp, the much less accountable they develop into.”

Naturally, Meta is pissed at Flatiron Books, and issued an arbitration order demanding that the writer cease selling or publishing the e book.

However Flatiron is displaying some spectacular spine and is refusing to again down, in line with tech outlet The Verge and their very own public assertion:

Macmillan Writer’s response to the arbitration order filed by Meta concerning our e book Careless Folks by Sarah Wynn-Williams, which launched Tuesday.

— Flatiron Books (@flatironbooks.bsky.social) 2025-03-13T18:11:33.174Z

Good for them! I’m glad to see publishers standing up in opposition to this bullying. Company and federal energy are marching in more and more overt lockstep, and we’re going want much more defiance and solidarity like this to beat them again.