US author says China media can't cover Google book

BEIJING – The author of a new book about Google will not promote it in China next month because he said the government is restricting the Chinese media's writings about the company since it moved its search engine off the mainland to avoid censorship.

The publisher of the Chinese edition and publicity agents for the tour believe Ken Auletta's book tour no longer made sense, because even if Chinese media attend, they won't be able to report anything, the author said in a phone interview late Wednesday.

"Googled: The End of the World as We Know It," by the New Yorker magazine writer was published in the U.S. last fall by Penguin Press, and state-owned China Citic Press bought the rights to translate and publish the Chinese edition.

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