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In response to "Amazon's playing Big Brother again, deleting books purchased on folkses Kindles." by Qale

As a business they have the right to dictate what they will and won't sell. The part I'd take issue with is removing content already purchased, but

Posted by TWuG Dec 16 '10, 13:13

the end of the article makes clear that that isn't happening.

Now, whether Amazon did have a "glitch" or re-thought removing content from Kindles, I don't know. At this point, though, any content that was unavailable is available now to those who had purchased it.

If Amazon was a monopoly on ebook sales, I'd be concerned about their content guidelines, but they aren't, so I'm not.

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It seems terribly inconsistant that they'd sell various motion pictures or professionally published books with similiar content. ALSO -- - Qale Dec 16, 13:16 12
- I'm not familiar with the content of what Amazon took down. All we know is "incest" is what the authors are claiming - TWuG Dec 16, 13:18 5
  - I know. I'm kind of moving past the current story to an overall perception/case history of Amazon. If you recall they removed mine back in the day... - Qale Dec 16, 13:19 4
    - Actually, I don't recall. What happened with your book and how was it resolved? -- nm - TWuG Dec 16, 13:22 3
      - It, along with others with gay content, were removed for a time. It took a few weeks, Amazon eventually blamed it on a hacker that found a way to rig - Qale Dec 16, 13:26 2
        
        Ah, I recall that. I didn't remember you were caught up in it. - TWuG Dec 16, 13:29 1
        
        I certainly have made purchases from Amazon since. But I wouldn't buy a digital copy of a book via them, nor would I publish one again. - Qale Dec 16, 13:31
- Finally: I've about had it with this whole "a couple of hundred of people flag something offensive" thanks to a social/political group, it gets banned - Qale Dec 16, 13:18
- Or, you know, books. Like Flowers in the Attic, still available on their site. -- nm - mara Dec 16, 13:17 4
  - *ding* -- nm - Diva Dec 16, 13:19
  - You probably don't find it surprising V.C. Andrews is one of my influences do you. -- nm - Qale Dec 16, 13:19 2
    - Ah! No, not really. :-) -- nm - mara Dec 16, 13:20 1
      - Also, Anne Rice and Alex Sanchez. :P -- nm - Qale Dec 16, 13:21
I think it made it clear that it *did* happen. -- nm - mara Dec 16, 13:15
it would be like Chapters going to your house and taking away a book you bought. They can sell what they want but once I buy it they can fvck right of -- nm - Beaker Dec 16, 13:14 3
- Except, as this article saus at the end, that only happened briefly as a "glitch". Whether it *was* a glitch is moot since the material was returned. - TWuG Dec 16, 13:21
- it would be more like iTunes deleting neo-Nazi punk rock off your computer... if it happened. - TFox Dec 16, 13:15 1
  - We never get enough neo-Nazi punk rock played on the radio. -- nm - Qale Dec 16, 13:20

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