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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
~sigh~
• The Kindle is not the only ebook reader / app / platform in existence.
• Tablet, smartphone and PC users are not restricted to a single store.
• Self-publishers are not restricted to a single platform.
• There are numerous commercial outlets for ebook self-publishing.
• You can always roll your own, if you are willing to go without DRM.
I agree that getting a book pulled from Amazon is unquestionably a major obstacle. But the same holds for paper books that Walmart chooses not to carry, or B&N chooses not to feature, or a book that publishers reject (or pull after publication), or a newspaper editor chooses not to review, or a reviewer trashes. None of these facts change:
- Any retailer's right to pull a title, for almost any reason, at any time
- A publisher's right to pull a title, for almost any reason, at any time
- That freedom of speech does not guarantee you a commercial platform
- That no contracts were violated
- That pulling a handful of titles does not indicate an "expansion" of an existing policy
Need I go on?
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Well for people who already invested in the Kindle it is effectively censorship.
You seem to forget, that while author can publish his work on Xyz site in Zyx format the reader who has the electronic device he paid money for are limited to only certain sites in this case Amazon.
It's like saying there was no censorship in Soviet Russia, because author could publish his work in some other country.
And your talk about how it is legal doesn't really change anything by the way, in some countries censorship is legal, but still called censorship.