‘On Beyond Zebra!’ is one of the titles to be discontinued.
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Online marketplace eBay Inc.
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said it is working to prevent the resale of six Dr. Seuss books pulled earlier this week by the company in charge of the late author’s works for containing offensive imagery.
“EBay is currently sweeping our market to remove these items,” a company spokeswoman said in an email.
Hundreds of entries for the six books were on the platform as of Thursday morning, although the number appeared to be lower than Wednesday night. The eBay spokeswoman said it would take some time to review sellers’ listings and that the company was keeping an eye on newly published listings.
Dr. Seuss Enterprises LP, which oversees the publishing and related fields of Dr. Seuss said Tuesday that it had decided that six of the famous author’s books – “And to think I saw it on Mulberry Street”; “If I Ran the Zoo”; “McElligot’s Pool”; “On Beyond Zebra!”; “Scrambled Eggs Super!” and “The Cat’s Quizzer” – would no longer be published because they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.”
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