I noticed the following when I looked round for some "Guidelines" info.
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Producers or sellers of items are expected to conduct proper research to ensure that the items created to be sold on Amazon.com are in compliance with all local, state, national, and international laws
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Now what may be considered acceptable in one country isn't always acceptable elsewhere. People are known to be scandalized by people kissing in a movie shown in India for example, so how can a person know that their book will be acceptable everywhere? I mean if someone writes an erotic book for example since much of this thread has dealt with erotic books, how can you know that you won't run afoul of the so called obsenity laws of one country or another? What one person considers art another might consider to be obscene and countries often think the same way I would think. I mean take any movie (as an example) that was released to DVD in the last year and get copies of it from 3 different countries and you may well find that you have three different versions of the same movie. One is less violent than the others, a 2nd might be more violent, a 3rd will have more or less sexual situations in the content and so forth. And I don't think there is a comperable situation with books. So if it violates what they consider decency in country x does this mean that Amazon can just yank it off the shelves everywhere without a word? That doesn't sound particularly fair to me. I mean in some far eastern countries the Bible is no doubt illegal or offensive to some so does that mean the Bible should be yanked off the kindle market, even though it isn't considered such in many other countries? That's what the quote above seems to be saying to me. How can anyone sell any book if all it takes is someone deciding it is objectionable to them to get the book yanked off the shelves?