Thread: Amazon Censorship Expands
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Old 01-04-2011, 09:38 PM   #391
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This is part of Amazon's contract for publishing eBooks:

3 Term and Termination

The term of this Agreement will begin upon your acceptance of it and will continue until it is terminated by us or by you. We are entitled to terminate this Agreement and your access to your Program account at any time without advance notice to you. You are entitled to terminate at any time by your provision to us of notice in accordance with our then-current procedures for account termination, in which event we will cease selling your Digital Books within 5 business days from the date you provide us notice of termination. We may also suspend your Program account at any time with or without notice to you, for any reason in our discretion. Following termination or suspension, we may fulfill any customer orders for your Digital Books pending as of the date of termination or suspension, and we may continue to maintain digital copies of your Digital Books in order to provide continuing access to or re-downloads of your Digital Books or otherwise support customers who have purchased a Digital Book prior to termination or suspension. The following provisions of this Agreement will survive termination of this Agreement: Sections 1, 3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and any other provisions that, by their nature, are intended to survive. All rights to Digital Books acquired by customers will survive termination.

Bold highlights added by me... this basically states that they can do as they like and may or may not choose to give you reasons. As a set of T&Cs, it may very well stink but surely you read them before getting Amazon to publish your book... and you had the option not to proceed if you objected to these T&Cs...

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Originally Posted by jamthecat View Post
I guess contracts mean nothing, be they implied, imprinted or written in indelible ink. Amazon's a private company that can do as it likes. And I'm sure you would not mind your bank feeling the same way about your mortgage or car loan or credit card agreement. They can change the rate ANY time they please and the contract be damned. Right.
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