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Originally Posted by david_e
I have very much enjoyed the discussion this issue has created but would like to ask about the personal responsibility of the author? I read the authors blog several times to make sure I understood what she was saying and each time I came away with the impression that she never consulted the Content Guidelines until after her work was removed.
How can you complain about being held to the terms of a contract that you agreed to but apparently never bothered to read? If you find terms of an agreement "so vague as to be useless" wouldn't you want to clarify the vagueness before consenting to do business?
Now back to the Nazis, Communist plots, and the evil corporate empire...
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Of course I read it. I'm a publisher as well as an author. And as to their "content guidelines" - as I stated in my blog - they were so vague as to be useless. The only way to discern what Amazon would not accept was to look at what they already published. Were there other erotic incest books on their virtual shelves when I published mine? Yep. Lots of them. Did they leave my erotic incest material on their virtual shelves for over a year before pulling them? Yep. So my books were published alongside other similar material and were not rejected outright or removed.
Until now.
And even then, no explanation from Amazon as to why, nor any clearer guidelines.
Whatever you might think about the subject matter in question, any reasonable person would conclude that Amazon has acted, certainly within their rights, considering the CYA language they've used in their so-called "guidelines" - but without much in the way of business ethics or consumer responsibility.
BTW,
loves incest erotica. Just got a big order from the North Pole...
