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There are actually a number of issues here. First I agree that it's not the government's job to ban disgusting books and that the situation (consumers threatening a boycott and Amazon pulling the book) eventually worked out correctly. As a personal observation, only an absolute idiot would write or buy such a book. One may safely assume that various law enforcement officials will be quite interesting in who is actually buying that book. This particular subject matter is one of the more universal taboos in modern society and few people are particularly sympathetic towards anyone who would make use of such a book.
This particular book also brings up one of my pet peeves about Amazon, which is they do not exercise enough quality control over their ebook store. I generally only use Amazon when I'm looking for a specific book mostly because I hate wading through the mass of self published books and repackaged PD books trying to find ebooks that I am actually interested in. I would be much happier with the Amazon experience if they would either have two separate ebooks stores, one for regular publishers and the other for self publishers, or if they would at least allow you to filter that stuff out.
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