Arg. None of my original stuff is coming through. I will do my best to add it here...
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
(Originally Posted by catsittingstill View Post
Sure there are. Alternative 0) Don't be intimidated by a bunch of prudish busybodies into pulling objectionable material. )
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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Thus proving this is one viable alternative they have used many times in the past and could use this time.
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
(Catsittingstill: 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?)
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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I was referring to books Amazon discovered,
after the 1984 kerfluffle, it couldn't legally sell because the person who put it up was not entitled to do so. Sorry about the misunderstanding. I thought the standard practice was to pull them from the store but not from the Kindles / archives of people who had purchased them already.
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
(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.)
...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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They can read it indefinitely provided they had it on their Kindles when Amazon deleted it from their archives, and provided they did not delete it subsequently, believing it was safe on their archives, before they discovered what happened.
Which makes it a minor issue for some but maybe not for others.
And waltzing in to break a previously established agreement, without re-negotiating or even letting the other party know you are breaking it, is the sort of action that calls for an effort to make things right. I'm not saying Amazon should sacrifice their firstborn (nor would their customers wish it) but something on the order of the sort of recompense they made for 1984 would not be unreasonable.
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
(Catsittingstill: The author shouldn't have to guess.)
The author knows what she wrote. I think she's got a pretty good idea of what's going on.
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She knows what she wrote, of course. What she doesn't know is what, in that 100,000 words, Amazon objects to. Like I said, she shouldn't have to guess.