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Originally Posted by Hellmark
While I recognize Amazon's right to stop selling what ever they want, I think it is more sloppy practices on their part. I mean, if they obviously had a problem about that, why wasn't it rejected right off the bat? Shouldn't someone have been like "Hey, that's probably not something we want to sell." and blocked it before sale? Do they not have anything in place for allowing that, all books submitted are automatically for sale until they decide otherwise? If the latter is the case, then they are asking for incidents like this to happen.
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It's already been stated in one of the other threads that their policy is to "publish everything, ask questions later", with only minimal filtering at the start. I can see why it's more efficient on the front end but it makes them reactive rather than proactive, which leads to messes like this.
I think it's not the decision itself that bothers me, it's the reactive approach they are taking. I just like to know what I'm dealing with, in the sense that I know that Walmart has a line it has drawn, and I know what they won't carry. The same is true for Christian retailers, and so on. Amazon's statement has been that they want to sell every book ever written, but the list of unspoken exceptions is getting quite a bit of attention. All of this doesn't make me think they are "evil" or make me hate them as a company or anything, I'm just wary of the inconsistencies. That's why I chose "buying fewer books" in the poll - I'm making a bigger effort to see what is available elsewhere so I really am buying fewer books from Amazon.