Baerbock stops selling her book

The book “Jetzt. How we are renewing our country ”by Green leader Annalena Baerbock is no longer being sold. That was decided by Baerbock himself, announced the Ullstein publishing house in Berlin.

Originally, Baerbock had announced that they would revise their work. In mid-August, a publisher’s spokeswoman announced on request that Baerbock was working on adding sources.

“The election campaign and the subsequent exploratory and coalition negotiations have not left the space for the necessary supplementary work,” Baerbock now explained in quotations circulated through the publisher. “It is foreseeable that this will not change in the coming months.”

The book will no longer be printed, copies in stores will no longer be sold and the eBook will no longer be available, said a publisher’s spokeswoman for the German Press Agency when asked.

Baerbock’s book was published on June 21st. Soon afterwards, the Austrian media scientist Stefan Weber pointed out a number of passages where there are striking linguistic similarities to other works.

Revision announced

Both Baerbock and her party and the publisher initially defended the book. Federal Managing Director Michael Kellner even spoke of “character assassination” in an initial reaction. Both the Greens and Ullstein-Verlag rejected the allegation of copyright infringement.

There are no footnotes in the book and no list of references at the end. The Ullstein-Verlag stated in July that there were sources in the text that would now be added for possible further editions.

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In mid-August, Baerbock had said in the ARD summer interview that her next work should be a revision of the criticized book: “The next book is the revision of the hazy book because I made mistakes.”

On Thursday, Baerbock was quoted by the publisher as saying: “As made clear in the book, our country needs modernization for a good future. I would like to do what I can to achieve this in the next few years. ” (dpa)