User blog comment:SpartHawg948/An Open Letter Regarding Mass Effect: Deception/@comment-216.145.70.100-20120201150518/@comment-737801-20120201165953

That's news to me as well. BioWare didn't announce it, nor did Jesse.

As to the lack of response, Chris' only comment has been to ask people to not post links to online sources of the book. And the other response has been from Stanley Woo asking people to keep the language down and saying that a few bans have already been handed out.