You're wrong, their is a big difference between school library/nation and a shop. Censorship at the school library/nation level consists of an attack on our ability to access anything at all. A shop refusing to sell an item gives the potential customer and originator, options to purchase/sell elsewhere... now if every shop in the country/world chooses not to sell an item then you may have a problem... that is NOT the case here. This is an "alleged" removal of an item by Amazon who have every right to do so... it says so in the T&C that the author agrees to when selling a book on Amazon and applies to paper just as much as eBooks but it doesn't stop the author selling from another outlet or their own website... if it isn't on Amazon then use a search engine to find it...
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Originally Posted by CleverClothe
The definition of censorship does not reference government action in anyway. Any person or organization that is in the position to control access to media can be involved in censorship. This can be on the level of a school library, or it can be on the level of a whole nation. The seriousness of this issue varies based on the reach of the effects of the censorship. This is what we are talking about.
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