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Originally Posted by Sonist
At the same time, Amazon waffled: at first they declined to remove the book, then they succumbed to the pressure to ban from the store.
I would have respected them more if they stood their ground, on principle alone.
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The bizzare thing is that they probably did.
Obviously I'm not privy to Amazon's internal handling, but I have no compulsion about a likely scenario in which an Amazon employee acted exactly according to company policy. Internally they likely work along a creed of "Everything to Everyone" so when asked about the book, said employee likely thought it was some kind of third rate cheap knock-off of Lolita, hence defended its existence. Then someone at Amazon took the trouble to begin reading it and said; "Whooa, do we really need to take Everything this literally?" and sent it upstairs with a memo. Those attuned to Amazon's status in the retail world likely agreed and realized that the line for Everything had been challenged, time to pull the book from sales.