In ‘Paterno,’ Bad Timing for a Book

On Thursday afternoon, the Free Library of Philadelphia was ready to go with a Sept. 6 event for Joe Posnanski, the author of “Paterno,” a forthcoming biography of the famed and now vilified football coach. On Friday morning, the book’s publisher told the library to cross it off the calendar.

Simon & Schuster is backpedaling quickly in the final weeks before the publication of “Paterno,” which has emerged as perhaps one of the most unfortunately timed books of 2012

Simon & Schuster acquired the book for a reported $750,000, and Karp said he expected the company would print close to 75,000 copies.