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One more thought, in answer to all the worries about the slippery slope:
I do not worry about Amazon's removal of this book causing a slippery slide into removing books like all those posters say they fear for as being "next", because "who decides where to draw the line?"
People yesterday gave me hope for this country. They demonstrated their ability to recognize a difference between those books and books advocating something as indefensible as sexually molesting children.
They have shown that they accept the need for tolerance for selling books like Mein Kampf and other offensive material that offends them.
They understand that there is a constitutional right to freedom of religion. They know our founders forcefully emphasized the importance of freedom of political expression, including rebellion.
Other books some groups would like to quash are protected by the greatly larger number of people who require hard convincing to quash anything that has even minor redeeming qualities vis-à-vis important lessons, literary value, or even entertainment value.
They showed that they see that books published to advocate pedophilia are a whole other breed of animal - something that legitimately deserves overwhelming scorn, as it is utterly indefensible by anyone other than sick minds.
Since the masses have no trouble seeing that line, I trust that it is bold enough for Amazon to avoid crossing over it and removing something that deserves more consideration.
If we ever get to the point where the majority of us truly cannot see the line between advocating pedophila and The Diary of Anne Frank, then we will have completely forfeited our claim to be higher intelligence and traded our ability to make contextual judgment calls for such weak and broken crutches of aids like zero tolerance laws in schools.
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