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I knew this would happen. Once people forced them (through threat of a boycott) to remove one book, they'd end up removing more.
Still, it's their right. Someone brought up snuff movies & Netflix, but at least when I was a member, Netflix didn't rent hardcore pornography, either. They had some of the Cinemax type of stuff, but no real porn. Not even ones with a plot.
While public companies have to answer to their shareholders, the biggest shareholder is apparently the guy that runs it. Not an outright controlling interest, but still, a lot.
And yeah, no, there isn't a lot of consistency. Here or anywhere else. Gay rape is a theme in Pulp Fiction, Deliverance, and probably a lot of other movies that I can't think of. So why is that okay to sell and not this book? Why is violence in video games bad and perfectly fine in mainstream movies (Saw, Hostel, the whole torture porn genre)? Hollywood has a lot more influence, basically.
Why does the NFL crack down on celebrating, yet go out of its way to protect and promote its newest poster boy, someone who tortures and kills dogs for fun and is pretty clearly a sociopath?
Why do sportswriters praise athletes who use steroids in the NFL and condemn athletes who do the same in baseball? In my local paper, a columnist won an award for an article attacking McGwire, yet like a month later wrote one praising and defending an NFL guy who was caught using steroids by testing (and that same year as he was suspended, he made the pro bowl).
So to sum up my point, hypocrisy is everywhere. You can't do anything about it, thinking about it will just drive you crazy...
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