[abookreader]

okay - I see here in post #25 where you speak of Amazon's responsibility to help parent the internet

Yes I agree but I'm not discussing parental responsibilities. I'm discussing Amazon's responsibility as a retailer to and for children. Not all parents are diligent and Amazon do not provide any means of restricting access to adult or offensive material.

I see here in post #51, where you want Amazon to share the responsibility in keeping objectionable material out of the hands of kids by making sure they aren't able to download free samples.

BUT

I do agree that the ultimate responsibility is the parents but parents are not perfect nor are they able to keep tabs on everything all the time. That's why Amazon need to share the responsibility.

and I see here in post #201 where you ask for a safe environment for children

To protect children we need to create an environment that is safe and nurturing. Now the internet is never going to be 'safe' but we can, and should, work to make it safer. Material that promotes, condones and even encourages sex crimes against children should not be allowed to be publicly advertised or sold.
Porno magazines are sold in sealed plastic bags with modesty stickers on the cover. This is to prevent a child accidently seeing something intended for adults. Amazon needs to employ the same due care. I dont care if Mr Greaves writes a hundred pedo hand books, I dont care if he creates a pedo blog to sell his book. I do care that Amazon promoted material that encouraged sex crimes against children. I do care that this ebook offered a free sample that could have been accessed by a child.(and yes I've already gone a few rounds regarding parental responsibility)
I understand the value of freedom but I am less concerned about my rights than I am concerned about the welbeing and safety of children.

So I again have to ask - who is going to dictate the confines of your safe environment that Amazon needs to apply to help co-parent our children.

Will your proposed ratings system be like our current Movie ratings system, where a human body can be mutilated and murdered 6 ways from Sunday and still earn nothing more than a PG 13..... but show a man's you know what and its an automatic NC-17?

As a parent, I find it a totally un-tenable proposition and rather unreasonable to expect Amazon to implement. Because again - they are not just selling to me with my white bread middle America Protestant values. They're selling to Japan for goodness sake! Have you ever seen the types of things Japanese men carry onto mass transit to read during their commute? I can pretty well guarantee that if Amazon were to try and impose my values on that they'd be laughed away.