Exclusive | Author demands payment from Lee Po after Causeway Bay Books ‘trashed’ 20,000 works
A local author has called on the owner of the controversial bookstore to compensate him for thousands of copies that were allegedly trashed without his consent
Woo Chih-wai, 75, is seeking payment from Lee Po, the bookstore owner whose disappearance last year, along with four of his publishing colleagues caused a storm in Hong Kong.
They turned up on the mainland, where they were detained for selling books banned across the border, before four of them were allowed to return home.
Woo said some 20,000 copies of books that he authored had been disposed of since Causeway Bay Books shut down earlier this year.
“Those were my books distributed by Mighty Current, the parent company of numerous publishers owned by Lee with Causeway Bay Books as its outlet,” Woo said. He claimed that another 200 copies that he published independently had also been cleared without his knowledge.