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Old 12-15-2010, 04:33 PM   #136
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga View Post
The author who got booted quite literally says: "The Bible has incest in it. So Amazon, if that's why you dropped my book, then you should stop selling the Bible as well."

This claim is, as I said before: absurd, childish, trivial, fatuous, specious and so forth. This specific argument has absolutely no merit.
This is incorrect.

If the criteria is "contains incest = not allowed to be sold," then the bible should indeed be removed from the listings. If the criteria is the much more likely "depicts incest in a way that one of our managers thinks is prurient," then it shouldn't--but authors should be given that information, so they don't submit books that that manager thinks contain prurient depictions of incest.

If the criteria is "books that we receive [X#] complaints about, which mention sexual content, are removed from the listings," authors should know that, too, and they can decide whether it's worth submitting a book that might garner complaints.
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