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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
I think that there's no reason to conclude that this isn't completely legal; the author, after all, was also allowed to stop doing business with Amazon at any time with no warning and no reasons.
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An author may not have to provide reasons, but he has to provide warning to Amazon to stop doing business with them--he can't remove the book from their listings on his own.
He's likely unable to require "remove the book NOW;" it's more likely that he'd be able to say "remove the book immediately," and they'd take a few days (or up to a couple of weeks) to stop accepting sales of it. He also can't enforce "stop selling my book immediately, and send me all the money you owe me for past sales by the end of the week."
The fact that these phrases are common in business contracts doesn't make them universally enforceable, and the inequity between supplier and distributor may open the distributor for challenges.