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Originally Posted by catsittingstill
Sure there are. Alternative 0) Don't be intimidated by a bunch of prudish busybodies into pulling objectionable material.
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They aren't. There is actually a lot of offensive and/or erotic content on Amazon, and I see no indications that they're going to wipe it all overnight.
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Originally Posted by catsittingstill
Alternative 1) Pull the book from the store, but leave it on the personal archives of people who wanted it enough to buy it. Amazon has pulled books from the store for various reasons (mostly legal, I thought) in the past--didn't they handle it this way then?
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No. They wiped it from their databases, deleted it from the reading devices, and issued an automatic refund. People subsequently went through the roof.
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Originally Posted by catsittingstill
Alternative 2) Pull the book from the archives also and refund the customers for the book whether they delete it from their Kindles or not.
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...except they still bought it, and can read it indefinitely. They just have to back it up themselves. Hence, IMO "minor issue."
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The author shouldn't have to guess.
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The author knows what she wrote. I think she's got a pretty good idea of what's going on.