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Adelaide bookstore ‘raided’ over unwrapped ‘American Psycho’ copies

Police have ‘raided’ Imprints Booksellers in Adelaide for selling copies of the R18-classified American Psycho that were not plastic-wrapped, reports ABC News.

Co-owner Jason Lake said a new Picador Classic edition of the novel, published in February 2015, was distributed to the store without its plastic wrapping.

‘We just assumed the classification has been lifted,’ said Lake. ‘My defence was it came to us like this. There’s no way I would have removed the wrapping.’

Lake said the police, who were responding to a complaint, asked that the unwrapped books be removed from the shelf.

A police spokesperson said that ‘police spoke with bookstore staff, who were very co-operative, and the matter was resolved to the satisfaction of police’.

A spokesperson for Pan Macmillan told Books+Publishing that ‘due to an unforeseen production error a small number of copies of the Picador classic edition of American Psycho were released without the required shrink wrapping’. ‘When the publisher was made aware of the error, the problem was immediately rectified and copies of the title already purchased without shrink wrapping are returnable,’ said the spokesperson.

 

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